The richest endowments of the mind are temperance prudence and fortitude. Prudence is a universal virtue which enters into the composition of all the rest; and where she is not fortitude loses its name and nature.
The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul is What does a woman want?
There is a homely adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Men are born with two eyes but only one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Prudence is the virtue of the sense. It is the science of Appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
The richest endowments of the mind are temperance prudence and fortitude. Prudence is a universal virtue which enters into the composition of all the rest; and where she is not fortitude loses its name and nature.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.
The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul is What does a woman want?
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Everyone recognizes me in my book and my book in me.
There is a homely adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.