“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay great ones - with ingratitude”
Benjamin Franklin
“Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.”
Chuck Grassley
“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”
“To the extent you don't repay, you'll be charged very high rates.”
Martin Nissenbaum
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is high time to repay the natural environment for what humans have done to it through his brain evolution.”
Nishi De Silva