In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

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

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

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.

You are forever alone.