That touchstone Opportunity. [ Charles Reade ]
Calamity is man's true touchstone. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind. [ Proverb ]
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men. [ Proverb ]
The touchstone distinguishes between gold and brass. [ Proverb ]
Repartee is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit. [ Moliere ]
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship. [ Hazlitt ]
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit. [ Moliere ]
Experience, that chill touchstone whose sad proof reduces all things from their hue. [ Byron ]
Possession is the touchstone of love: true love finds new ardor, frivolous love extinguishes itself in it. [ Panage ]
Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. [ Tacitus ]
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting. [ Schlegel ]
It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]