The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.