Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Ch. XXII : Knight of the Royal Axe, or Prince of Libanus, p. 347 - Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)