Jesse Jones

Debt that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

A decent society wouldn’t push millions of student into debt. It would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment. It is a public good.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

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

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

There are but two ways of paying debt-increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

Even when I tweeted that I was in debt, that gave me power.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay debts, you have no idea, of the pain it gives one.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.