Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.
I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.
Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat. , In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet. ]
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.
There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
Steel is prince or pauper.
I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said. “Life can be difficult for everyone,” she replied. “Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.
A pauper in the midst of wealth.
