"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin" -- Desiderius Erasmus

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition" -- William James

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers" -- William James

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live." -- George Bernard Shaw