I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.
There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.
Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.