Henry Ward Beecher

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.

A church debt is the devil’s salary.

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

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

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.

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

A church debt is the devil’s salary.

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.

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

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

Only debt is forever.

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

I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you motivate them.

He who promises runs in debt.

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

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.