The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.5,'Of  Adversity'.

Prosperity istheblessingofthe Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.5,'Of  Adversity'.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.5,'Of  Adversity'.

No, for prosperity.

-Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline
Attributed, when asked whether he wrote his songs for posterity.

Truly God isgood to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 73:1^3.

Grit riches and prosperitie Upfosteris vyce.

-Brown,Thomas
c  Letters of Gold, l.131^2.

   Therearetwo ideas of government.Therearethose who believethat, if you will only legislatetomakethewell-to- do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislateto make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.

-Bryan,WilliamJennings
  Speech at the Democratic National Convention,10  Jul.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

-Carlyle,Thomas
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Man of Letters'.

For of fortunes sharpe adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
c.1385  Troilus and Criseyde, bk.3, l.1625^8.

Prosperity is onlyaninstrumentto be used, not a deity to be worshipped. 236

-Coolidge, (John) Calvin
  Speech, Boston,11  Jun.

Let us be frank about it. Most of our people have never had it so good.Go around the country, go to the industrial towns, go to the farms, and you will see a state of prosperity such as we have never had in my lifetimeönor indeed ever in the history of this country.

-Stockton
  Speech, Bedford, 20  Jul. This is the original form of the oft- misquoted'You never had it so good'.

But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!

-Milton,John
   Adam muses on death. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.808^20.

The rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension, of the society.On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

-Smith, Adam
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.11, conclusion.

Without publicity there is no prosperity.

-Zel'dovich,Yakov
Quoted byTony Rothman in Bostonia, summer1993, p.58.