Principles cannot die. [ Wade Hampton ]
Friendship is a holy principle. [ M. W. Anderson ]
Principle is a passion for truth. [ Hazlitt ]
Sacrifice money rather than principle. [ Rothschild ]
Health is the vital principle of bliss. [ Thomson ]
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise of health. [ James Thomson ]
What is kindness? A principle in the good. [ Hitopadesa ]
Principle is ever my motto, no expediency. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
We talk on principle, but we act on interest. [ Landor ]
Whoever is right, the persecutor must be wrong. [ William Penn ]
The Alphabet Of Success
Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. [ George Eliot ]
Beauty is the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
If principle is good for any thing, it is worth living up to. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. [ Kossuth ]
He who knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. [ Confucius ]
Let grace and goodness be the principle loadstone of thy affections. [ Dryden ]
Principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast. [ Richter ]
Frugality is founded upon the principle, that all riches have limits. [ Burke ]
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. [ Milton ]
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Good sense is both the first principle and parent-source of good writing. [ Horace ]
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience. [ Archbishop Manning ]
Still it is a fine sight to see a man who has never changed his principles. [ Jules Favre ]
The brain is the citadel of the senses: this guides the principle of thought. [ Pliny the Elder ]
If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them. [ Tillotson ]
Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom. [ Kossuth ]
No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. [ Henry Giles ]
Natural selection is the principle by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved. [ Darwin ]
He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy. [ L'Estrange ]
Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when yet above common-sense. [ Locke ]
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. [ Fielding ]
Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. [ Jeremy Collier ]
A man behind the times is apt to speak ill of them, on the principle that nothing looks well from behind. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Let us cling to our principles as the mariner clings to his last plank when night and tempest close around him. [ Adam Woolever ]
Men must have righteous principles in the first place, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. [ Luther ]
The mob have neither judgment nor principle, - ready to bawl at night for the reverse of what they desired in the morning. [ Tacitus ]
Truth is the only real lasting foundation for friendship, in all but truth there is a principle of decay and dissimulation. [ Miss Helen Edgeworth ]
It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions. [ Rev. Dr. Sharp ]
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. [ Colton ]
Without settled principle and practical virtue, life is a desert; without Christian piety, the contemplation of the grave is terrible. [ Sir William Knighton ]
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure. [ Emerson ]
The heart must be perpetually fortified by wise counsel and high moral principle, or it will inevitably submit to the invasion of the vilest foes. [ Magoon ]
The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A principle fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. [ Lord Bacon ]
Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate. [ G. H. Lewes ]
God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls. [ Massillon ]
There is a great difference between nationality and race. Nationality is the miracle of political independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life. [ Bishop Butler ]
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. [ Lytton ]
The two weak points of our age are want of principle and want of profile. Style depends largely on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high at present. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. [ Lavater ]
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. [ Lowell ]
I have all reverence for principles which grow out of sentiments; but as to sentiments which grow out of principles, you shall scarcely build a house of cards thereon. [ Jacobi ]
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul; that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love; and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. [ William Ellery Channing ]
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumny, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principle has taken full effect on this state favorite. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length. Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. [ Colton ]
Laissez faire, the "let alone" principle, is, in all things which man has to do with, the principle of death. It is ruin to him, certain and total, if he lets his land alone, if he lets his fellow-men alone, if he lets his own soul alone. [ John Ruskin ]
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle. [ Burke ]
Let us pity the wicked man; for it is very sad to seek happiness where it does not exist. Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring him gently back to sacred principle, and if he persist, let us pity him the more for a blindness so fatal to himself. [ De Charnage ]
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature. [ Pascal ]
Poetry can make even the thought of death beautiful, and the sadness of bereavement not without a certain pleasure. Great poets have elicited from the sternest suffering a principle of enjoyment. Sublime faith and earnest love can conjure spirits the most lovely from the darkest abyss. [ Tuckerman ]
A gentleman's taste in dress is, upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you will find him the cheapest. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles - that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith - be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support. [ Southey ]
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation. [ Coleridge ]
It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
[ Albert Barnes ]
The maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best,
has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits. [ Dr. Johnson ]
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment,
to describe the self-surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]