"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."
– Henry Ward Beecher
"Principles become modified in practise by facts."
- Cooper, The American Democrat
"If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to."
- Franklin
"The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness."
– Harry Harrison
"In matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."
– Thomas Jefferson
