Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. Goethe, Johann Von
Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. Nash, Ogden
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. Thurber, James
Property is not theft, but a good deal of theft becomes property. Tawney, Richard H.
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it…the basest of all things is to be afraid. Faulkner, William
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. Nagarjuna
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. Babson, Roger
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. Bacon, Francis
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. Hazlitt, William
Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. Bacon, Francis
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Coolidge, Calvin
