Who said “Poverty is the step-mother of genius.”?

“As society advances the standard of poverty rises.”

“Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.”

“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”

“Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!”

“This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.”

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

“Tew bring up a child in the wa he should go—travel that wa yourself.”

“I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.”

“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”

“I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.”

“When a man gits tew talking about himself, he seldum fails tew be eloquent, and often reaches the sublime.”