Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

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

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

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

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

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

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it’s much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

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

Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.

I took my power back, like, ‘Man, my financial situation don’t make me.’ I’m in debt – now what? And I’m still Ye.- Kanye West

Debt is the slavery of the free.

The impulse dances inside the debt.