Who said “As society advances the standard of poverty rises.”?

“Poverty is the step-mother of genius.”

“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.”

“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”

“Remorse is the pain of sin.”

“Politics is the science of urgencies.”

“Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.”

“Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.”

“Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.”