“Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.”

“Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.”

“People love to classify things as black and white, good or bad, but I’ve seldom met any one who can be neatly defined and classified…”

“By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.”

“Such are the vicissitudes of our mortal lot: misfortune is born of prosperity, and good fortune of ill-luck.”
Habet has vices conditio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur.

“Try fighting with your head for a change…
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.”

“If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.”

“Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”

“Altars seldom smoke in prosperous times.”
Rarae fumant felicibus arae.

“Fortunate people seldom mend their ways, for when good luck crowns their misdeeds with success they think it is because they are right.”