The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.
No one who works for a living should live in poverty.
I write to escape ... to escape poverty.
I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.