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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Important principles may and must be inflexible.
Important principles may and must be inflexible.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, read more
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.