Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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.