If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.