If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great read more

If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great

Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: read more

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

Oh, how portentous is prosperity!
How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.

Oh, how portentous is prosperity!
How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.

Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
[Prosperity lets go the bridle.]

Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
[Prosperity lets go the bridle.]

I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste.

I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He
overthrows them altogether: such is the end of read more

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He
overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
[Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus
Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and
arrogance.
[Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque read more

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and
arrogance.
[Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque
magno opere fugiamus.]