Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Evils have come through our very prosperity, but in warring against the evil let us be exceeding careful not to war against the prosperity.

Prosperity by itself never made any man happy.

Do your work and do it up to the handle and then play when you have got time to play, and if you are worth anything enjoy that, too.

If any man tells you that he can advance a specific by which all the evils of the body politic will be made to disappear, distrust him, for ...