I have the grace of providence to be poor.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

Who, being loved, is poor?

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

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

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

your poverty is serving no one. If you’re a charitable person, you’d be a whole lot more charitable if you had lots of money.

*Of giving, even when I have nothing,

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be!

you can't help poor people and be comfortable. You know, the two things are just not compatible. If you want to really give good health care to poor people you've got to be prepared to be a little uncomfortable and to put a little bit of sacrifice behind it

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

I am poor, and I am glad that i am, for i find that wealth makes more people mean than it duz generous.

a rich society must care for the poor