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.

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

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

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

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

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

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

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

We are all the same in that we all want to be different.

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

They go the long way but we take the short cut Give me the blonde hair, long weave, short cut

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.