Ambrose Bierce

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.

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

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

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

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

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill!

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

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

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

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

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