A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.