John Buchanan Robinson

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

You are forever alone.

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

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

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

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

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.

In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

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

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.

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