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.

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

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

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

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

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

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.