Rich and Poor

Irish
Subtleman: And how do you intend to live?
Teague: By eating, dear joy, when I can get it; and by sleeping when I can get none; 'tish the fashion of Ireland.
George Farquhar 1677-1707

Scottish
This is where the children of honest poverty have the most precious of all advantages over those of wealth.
The mother, nurse, cook, governess, teacher, saint, all in one; the father, exemplar, guide, counsellor and friend!
Thus were my brother and I brought up. What has the child of a millionaire or nobleman that counts compared to such a heritage?
Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919

Welsh

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all,
and they consider liberality and hospitality among the first virtues.
Giraldus Cambrensis c 1146-1223 Descriptio Kambriae

From the Appletree Press titles: A Little Book of Irish Quotations, A Little Book of Scottish Quotations and A Little Book of Welsh Quotations.