Samuel Johnson

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

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

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

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.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Debt is the worst poverty.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

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.

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

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.