"Entre l'arbre et l'ecorce il n'y faut pas mettre le doigt."

"You're mistaken: men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot b…"

"It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire."

"Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity."

"Look before you ere you leap."

"'Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour, As he that has two strings t' his bow, And burns for …"

"[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when…"

"You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence. You will hear, that the first duty is to get land and money, pl…"

"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."

"Let your loins be gilded about, and your lights burning."