“Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”
“Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.”
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”
“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.”
“The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”
“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”