The lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced, nor can the vices of a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel preserves its lustre, though trodden in the mud, but a brass pot, though placed upon the head, is brass still.
Panchatantra.
434.
Noble birth is an accident of fortune, noble actions characterise the great.
Goldoni.
435.
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
Hazlitt.
436.
When anyone is modest, not after praise, but after censure, then he is really so.