“Wisdom and prudence are always recompensed.”
“Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.”
“It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.”
“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”
“Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.”
“Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers”