Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich.

Their money somehow blocks it up.

It is a great privilege to be poor, Peter--one that no man ever coveted, and but a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.
You must not mistake, however, and imagine it a virtue; it is but a privilege, and one also that, like other privileges, may be terribly misused.

Had you been rich, my Peter, you would not have been so good as some rich men I know.

And now I am going to tell you what no one knows but myself: you, Peter, and your wife both have the blood of the royal family in your veins.