Poverty

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Lack of money is the root of all evil

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy

There is no one so rich that they don't need help or so poor that they cannot help

Charity gives itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Do not waste your time on social questions. What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work

Our financial resources have run out and so the doors will soon be closing

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father