Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.
Jonathan BROOKS (Quaker, of Bristol.), Nicholas LING (1773). “Antiquity; or the Wise instructer. Being a collection of ... admonitions and sentences compendiously put together from an infinite variety of the most celebrated Christian and heathen writers, etc. The editor's dedication signed: Jonathan Brooks. A reprint, with minor alterations, of N. Ling's “Politeuphuia. Wits Commonwealth.””, p.197
