Of the Broadway play The Millionairess, a critic wrote sarcastically that Katharine Hepburn was trying to impress us with the fact that all a pauper needs to become rich is the arrogance of wealth. Neville: he was wiser than he knew. The arrogance of wealth is all a man needs to stop being a pauper, because a state is an activity of mind and to the degree one can sustain it, to that degree one creates it - nothing is brought into being by a power outside itself, and poverty can only remain while a man is conscious of being poor.