Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

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

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

You are forever alone.