William Hazlitt Quote

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.


"On the Conversations of Lords," New Monthly Magazine (April 1826). - Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)


Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.