Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

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

When you get in debt you become a slave.

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

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

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

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

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

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

I’m in debt. I am a true American!

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

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.