Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Owing money has never concerned me so long as I know where it could be repaid.

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Ten million dollars after I’d become a star I was deeply in debt.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

The impulse dances inside the debt.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.

If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill!