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

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

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

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

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

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

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