Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.
Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
Where all life dies death lives.