To live miserable we know not why, to have the dread of hunger, to work sore and yet gain nothing—this is the essence of poverty. Poverty (1912)
To continue in poverty for any long period means in the end the loss of the power of doing work, and to be unable to work means in the end pauperism. Poverty (1912)
Society as a whole would return... to the actual poverty of an agricultural and handicraft age. Why We Fail as Christians (1919)