You don't give yourself enough credit. Ignorance keeps you mean. Learning makes you kind.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

Claiming false credit to come out trumps in a Corporate culture and competition is the way for many today.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.