Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Sorrow makes us children again.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

We all think we’re going to get out of debt.

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

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

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

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

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

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

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

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

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.