Common Quote by John Calvin

None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows…

— Owen Feltham

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor, frozen churl

— Joanna Baillie

When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of…

— Zicheng Hong

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy…

— Orison Swett Marden

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Man may have rank and position and a thousand qualifications, he may possess all the good of the earth, but if he lacks the…

— Inayat Khan

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

— John Bunyan

“There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appearance, fairly well educated, not stupid, rather…

— Dostoyevsky

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

— Benjamin Franklin

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson