From morning to night anxious, he could not bear to be supposed of easy heart.

Some men think poverty such a shame that they would rather be judged absolutely mean than confess it.

Mr.Drake's openness may have sprung from too great a desire for sympathy; or from a diseased honesty--I can not tell; I will freely allow that if his faith had been as a grain of mustard seed, he would not have been so haunted with a sense of his poverty, as to be morbidly anxious to confess it.

He would have known that his affairs were in high charge: and that, in the full flow of the fountain of prosperity, as well as in the scanty, gravelly driblets from the hard-wrought pump of poverty, the supply came all the same from under the throne of God, and he would not have _felt_ poor.

A man ought never to feel rich for riches, nor poor for poverty.