Charles Dickens

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

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

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

Grief never mended no broken bones.

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

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.

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

There are some debts that can’t be paid with money.

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

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.

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

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

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

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.

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

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

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

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

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