1the poor are wise, more charitable, kinder, more sensitive than we are. 2in their eyes, prison is a tragedy in a man's life, a misfortune, a casualty, something that calls for sympathy in others. 3they speak of one who is in prison as of one who is 'in trouble' simply. 4it is the phrase they always use, and the expression has the perfect wisdom of love in it. 5with people of our own rank, it is different. the main idea of the paragraph is best expressed in sentence number 1 2 3 4 5