It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

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

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

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

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

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.

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.