Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

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

Debt is the slavery of the free.

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

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

A Debt Problem Is, At Its Core, a Budgeting Problem.

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

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

He that dies pays all debts.

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

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

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.