It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Poor people are more greedy than rich people

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

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

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest—usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation—and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.

"Be careful to leave your sons [and daughters] well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
[in brackets: though I have only sons, I am — of course — someone's daughter]