What a miserable thing it is to be poor.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

It is the worst of all quaint and of all cheap ways of life that they bring us at last to the pinch of some humiliation.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people ... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

What a wretched thing it was to be born poor and not to have any one to do anything for you and not to be able to do so very much for yourself!

People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be
generous.

Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.

If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty.