prudence

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

"Faith" is a fine invention When Gentleman can see - But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency

We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would save the world. I think that, with the salty taste of blood and sweat on our lips, we are learning that we had best talk once again about doing what is right.

At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same. And why? Because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear.

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.