"Prudence is the virtue of the senses...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.”

“All great successes are the triumph of persistence.”

“Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”

“Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this.”

“Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.”

“Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.”

“Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.”

“Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.”

“It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.”