So is ... - Better, So let a man be to his praise, let him purify it from all the alloy of flattery and baseness with which it is very likel…

So is a man to his praise—that is, just as the fining-pot and furnace test the metals put into them, so too that on which a man pr…

Many a man, who can bear adversity, cannot bear prosperity.

The world's censures seldom do a Christian any harm, but it is the breath of appl…

[As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold
For the trying, proving, and purifying these metals; see ([…

Silver and gold are tested by putting them into the furnace and refining pot; so is a man tested by praising him.