It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Source: Essays, Gifts (First Series), 1841.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.