“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.”– Samuel Johnson Related Quotes “A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.”– Joseph Addison “Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.”– William Ellery Channing “Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.”– Friedrich Nietzsche