He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

True poverty does not come from God.

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.