Poverty comes from the poverty of positive thoughts and creative ideas.

You never have anything because you fought for nothing.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

I believe that honor and money nearly always go together... . Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude.

Always think of the days of scarcity' during the days of abundance, so that you will not long for the days of abundance during times of scarcity.

It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing-that's the Lord's test.

There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

I didn't feel poor, I just felt that I didn't have any money

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Poverty is taking your children to the hospital and spending the whole day waiting with no one even taking your name-and then coming back the next day, and the next, until they finally get around to you.

The poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Poverty is very good in poems, but it is very bad in a house. It is very good in maxims and in sermons, but it is very bad in practical life.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

Who, being loved, is poor?