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

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes

Yes, you are right - I am a moralist in disguise; it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions

Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it

Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in