Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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

In Prosperity, we forget God but in Adversity we know Him!

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.