Henry Ward Beecher

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Hold yourself to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.

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

In the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our survival.

Debt certainly isn’t always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

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

Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.