Apollo Hesiod

“Too idle to work, too proud to beg, the mercenaries were accustomed to a life of rapine: they could rob with more dignity and effect under a banner and a chief; and the sovereign, to whom their service was useless, and their presence importunate, endeavored to discharge the torrent on some neighboring countries.”
― Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6

“the well-off should not indulge self-justifying fantasies of the “happy” poor. There is always a misery and wretchedness (15: 15) around poverty that all who love God will want to remove (Psalm 41: 1).”
― Timothy J. Keller, God's Wisdom for Navigating Life: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs

“Childhood is the writer’s bank balance.”
― Graham Greene

“Quite apart from wanting to win, Harry found that he had fewer nightmares when he was tired out after training.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone