Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.