Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.