It sometimes happens that poverty brings to a man what all his wealth had failed to give—happiness. A man too rich to be industrious is a prey to the thousand frets of unoccupied leisure. The want of proper occupation is the cause of more than half of the petty frets of life.
In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
No man can tell by turning to his ledger whether he is rich or poor. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor, according to what he is, not according to what he has.—BEECHER.
