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

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.

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

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

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

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

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.