I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

Principal is a passion for truth!

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.