By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.