"Even though we issue lots of credit cards and everything, we’d say, probably, if I had one piece of advice to give to young people, you know, across the board, it would be just to don’t get in debt."

"There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable."

":::::::Barlow S. Vode"

":And finds at last he might as well have paid it."

":Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it,"

":Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him,"

":So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him,"

":Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him;"

":Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him,"

":Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet,"

"There grows, In my most ill-compos'd affection such A stanchless avarice, that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands."

"Have you been eating paste?! It’s us, Ami and Yumi! Since when do we pay rent?!"

"Jesus, save me from the infatuation of avarice! I, too, will lay up a treasure, but Thou shalt have the keeping of it."

"Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust."

"Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals —"

"It is impossible to conceive any contrast more entire and absolute than that which exists between a heart glowing with love to God, and a heart in which the love of money has cashiered all sense of God — His love, His presence, His glory; and which is no sooner relieved from the mockery of a tedious round of religious formalism, than it reverts to the sanctuaries where its wealth is invested, with an intenseness of homage surpassing that of the most devout Israelite who ever, from a foreign land, turned his longing eyes toward Jerusalem."

"Desunt inopiæ multa, avaritiæ omnia."

"This avarice Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root."

"That disease Of which all old men sicken, avarice."

"Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit."

"Non propter vitam faciunt patrimonia quidam, Sed vitio cæci propter patrimonia vivunt."

"Ac primam scelerum matrem, quæ semper habendo Plus sitiens patulis rimatur faucibus aurum, Trudis Avaritiam."

"Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries."

"So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice."

"Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest."

"For wickedness, of its nature cowardly, testifies in its own condemnation, and because of a distressed conscience, always magnifies misfortunes."

"As saith the proverb of the Ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked."

"The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion."

"Who will stand up for me against evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against those who do wickedness?"

"Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes."

"The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?” The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.” Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.” Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.” Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?” He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.” Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?” He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.” Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”"

"O cæca nocentum consilia! O semper timidum scelus!"

"Better to stumble on the ground than to make a slip with the tongue; this is how easily the wicked fall."

"Destroy his fib, or sophistry—in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again."

"Whenever wickedness may cause trouble, Utu will not be idle!"

"'Cause I's wicked,—I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it."

"Are you call'd forth from out a world of men, To slay the innocent?"

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes."

"The world loves a spice of wickedness."

"He who lifts up his hand in a threatening manner against a fellow-man, though he may not actually strike him, is designated a wicked man."

"I don't withdraw a word of my initial statement. But I do now think it may have been incomplete. There is perhaps a fifth category, which may belong under "insane" but which can be more sympathetically characterized by a word like tormented, bullied, or brainwashed. Sincere people who are not ignorant, not stupid, and not wicked can be cruelly torn, almost in two, between the massive evidence of science on the one hand, and their understanding of what their holy book tells them on the other. I think this is one of the truly bad things religion can do to a human mind. There is wickedness here, but it is the wickedness of the institution and what it does to a believing victim, not wickedness on the part of the victim himself."

"There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees."

"Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; Oh, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence."

"Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forced to flow."

"My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear."

"As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor."

"When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall, Bubble up from the heart to the tongue, And Meekness is writhing in torment and thrall, By the hands of Ingratitude wrung, — In the heat of injustice, unwept and unfair, While the anguish is festering yet, None, none but an angel or God can declare "I now can forgive and forget.""

"In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind."

"Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love."

"She hath tied Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture here."