Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

Let’s first eradicate poverty before we promote wealth.

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it not only because I remember hearing it, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. And it is good for me to know it!

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.