as the French wit has put it. "One solitary philosopher maybe great,
virtuous and happy in the depth of poverty," says Isaac Iselin, "but not
a whole people." "Poverty" says Lucian, "persuades a man to do and
suffer everything that he may escape from it." "It requires a great deal
of poetry to gild the pill of poverty," says Madame Deluzy; "and then it
will pass for a pleasant dose only in theory; the reality is a failure."
"A generous and noble spirit" says Dionysius, "cannot be expected to
dwell in the breast of men who are struggling for their daily bread."
"HOW LIKE A RAILWAY TUNNEL
is the poor man's life," says Bovee, "with the light of childhood at
one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life
at the other extremity!" "Poverty," says Euripides, "possesses this
disease--through want it teaches a man evil." "Poverty," says Saadi,
"snatches the reins out of the hands of pity," which is true only in one
sense.