Prudential

There is a strong feeling in favour of cowardly and prudential proverbs.

In collecting together, for your use and benefit, some of the prudential maxims, and moral apothegms, of the ancient sages, the Publishers of this volume have been stimulated by an ardent desire to render this excellent mode of instruction as agreeable as possible; and, at the same time, to impress the precepts contained in the Fables more forcibly on your minds, they have endeavoured to make the embellishments worthy of your notice and examination.

a prudential line of conduct

Matrimony had always been a matter of prudential calculation.

a prudential committee

I believe few men knew more of the art of policy and self-interested prudentials, but never man so little practised them.