Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

All mankind love a lover.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

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

In the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our survival.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don’t say nothin’ ’bout the money. ‘Hi, how ya doin’? How’s ya mama doing?’ Man, how’s my money doin’?

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.

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

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

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

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

If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

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

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.