~Debt.~--He that dies pays all debts.--_Shakespeare._
Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible; a man might as well have a smoky
house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of
our life.--_Spurgeon._
The first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, almost
involving the necessity of proceeding in the same course, debt following
debt as lie follows lie. Haydon, the painter, dated his decline from the
day on which he first borrowed money.--_Samuel Smiles._
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you
will find it a calamity.--_Johnson._
That swamp [of debt] which tempts men towards it with such a pretty
covering of flowers and verdure. It is wonderful how soon a man gets up
to his chin there,--in a condition in which, spite of himself, he is
forced to think chiefly of release, though he had a scheme of the
universe in his soul.--_George Eliot._
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as
furies.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Deceit.~--No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to
himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered
as to which may be true.--_Hawthorne._