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,

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.

When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.

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.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.