Untried Quotes

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?