“Adversity does teach who your real friends are.”

“Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.”

“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.”

“You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.”

“Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”

“Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.”

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

“In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing.”