Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.