"The better part of valour is discretion"
— William Shakespeare

"I knew of a girl who thought that she was very wealthy because she had a complex. After further investigating it was not something to vacate, although she continued to be a conglomerate."
— Alton Hayes

"A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)"
— Ron Chernow (Alexander Hamilton)