Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Anything genuinely valuable looks better with nothing crowding it. Decency announced, footnoted and displayed starts to read as performance, and the display pulls attention away from the thing it was meant to frame. Quiet goodness is not modesty for its own sake. It is that an elaborate setting ends up competing with the stone.

Watch what happens after you do something generous. If the urge to mention it arrives quickly, let one instance pass unmentioned and see what that costs you, and what it protects.