poverty

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for Christian charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

Poverty consists in feeling poor.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance and folly.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty . . . for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine.