~ In adversity remember to keep an even mind. ~
~ Adversity is the foundation of virtue ~
~ Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ~
~ Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ~
~ Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ~
~ Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. ~
~ Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. ~
~ Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ~
~ We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ~
~ Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity ~
~ Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ~
~ Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ~