That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle.
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Dada Bhagwan
Principles become modified in practise by facts.
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James Fenimore Cooper
If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.
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Benjamin Franklin
Important principles may and must be flexible.
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Abraham Lincoln
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Will Durant
More Quotes By James Fenimore Cooper
Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value...
.. As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it. I have fought at his side in many a bloody scrimmage; and so long as I could hear the crack of his piece...
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than any existence of mediocrity.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
Tis open before your eyes, " returned the scout; "and he who knows it is not a niggard of its use. I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but...
