Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands