Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

You see, a person of my acquaintance used to divide people into three categories: those who would prefer to have nothing to hide than have to lie, those who would rather lie than have nothing to hide, and finally those who love both lies and secrets.