|John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.|
|AUTHOR:||Francis Bacon (15611626)|
|QUOTATION:||Virtue is like precious odours,most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. 1|
As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crushed or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith: The Captivity, act i.
The good are better made by ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
Samuel Rogers: Jacqueline, stanza 3. [back]