One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green
If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

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.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.