I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

In the course of crime ... the descent is rapid.

There is an old saying, that there is honour amongst thieves, and so it often proves.

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.

The rich believe in the ethos ''service to humanity'' & this has procured them riches,but the poor believe in the ethos,''service to self'' & this has brought them poverty.