Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

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

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

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

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

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

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