Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is-Love, forgive us!-cinders, ashes, dust.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

We have two American flags always; one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

In a change of government, the poor change nothing beyond the change of their master.

I should like to live like a poor man, with a great deal of money.

The more humanity owes him [the poor man], the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favours.