At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
It is a hard thing for a rich man to grow poor; but it is an awful thing for him to grow dishonest, and some kinds of speculation lead a man deep into dishonesty before he thinks what he is about. Poverty will not make a man worthless'he may be of worth a great deal more when he is poor than he was when he was rich; but dishonesty goes very far indeed to make a man of no value'a thing to be thrown out in the dust-hole of the creation, like a bit of broken basin, or dirty rag.
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