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

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.

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

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.

Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.

Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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,

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they read more

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

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.

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.