A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure....

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.