They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.