Poor Wrongly Judged as Lacking Ambition

"We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition" -- William James

Henry James: People Rich When Reality Meets Imaginings

"I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination." Author Henry James in The Portrait of a Lady