28 Quotes by John Buchanan Robinson

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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