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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.