Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, shew it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic

Comment (20 Jul 1768)
    (Source)

In James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)