October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
Hal Borland

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Charles Caleb Colton

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
Charles Horton Cooley