Thomas Carlyle

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress even on the smoothest road.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

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

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

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

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

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

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

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

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

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.

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

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

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.