Poverty is Treated as a Crime Rather Than Misfortune

"We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime" -- Christian Nestell Bovee

Poverty Reduces a Man's Responsibility to God

"In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less" -- Christian Nestell Bovee

Poverty is Only Contemptible When You Make It So

"Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil" -- Christian Nestell Bovee