Authority is powerful — You can't fight City Hall

Authority is everything — eloquence is not what the speaker says but who he is that gives weight to eloquence.

Authority is anathema to freedom — Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Authority is everything — people accept an idea more readily if you say Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Contract is an agreement made up of big words and little type.

A Contract is a deceptive document — The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

A Contract is worthless if not written — a verbal contract is not worth the paper it's printed on.

A Contract is a document written by lawyers for lawyers in order to make people immediately realise that they cannot do without lawyers.

Debt is about the only thing you can acquire without money.

Debt is terrible — a man in debt is caught in a net

Debt is worse than poverty — he that gets out of debt, grows rich.

Debt is not advisable. A debtor must often lie.

Inheritance shouldn't be counted on — A fool who waits for dead men's shoes is barefoot long.

Inheritance is plagued by a tricky motivational structure — He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

Inheritance is morally suspect — The tears of an heir are masked laughter.

Inheritance is a promoter of animosity — the rich, like pigs, they're appreciated only after their death.