--MILTON.
When any great design thou dost intend,
Think on the means, the manner, and the end.
--SIR J. DENHAM.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of
the best of hearts.--FIELDING.
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which
they degenerate into folly and excess.--JEREMY COLLIER.
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of
prudence.--JUVENAL.
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and
moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them
all.--BURKE.
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the
most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic
formula.--COLERIDGE.
PUNCTUALITY.--I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that
the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will
never be respected or successful in life.--REV. W. FISK.
I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has
made a man of me.--LORD NELSON.
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear
dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
--HORACE MANN.
It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.--LA FONTAINE.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character if
he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.--EMMONS.
PURITY.
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