• Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

    Alec-Tweedie: Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
    Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”