Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
The better part of valour is discretion.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.
There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Discretion is not the better part of biography.