It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.