Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Poverty
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In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less
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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
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The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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