Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear—they eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.—Alexander Smith.
When pride thaws look for floods.—Bailey.
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.—Frederick Saunders.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.—Johnson.
Principles.—Principle is a passion for truth.—Hazlitt.
Principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast.—Richter.
Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.—G. H. Lewes.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.—Emerson.
What is the essence and the life of character? Principle, integrity, independence, or, as one of our great old writers has it, "that inbred loyalty unto virtue which can serve her without a livery."—Bulwer-Lytton.
The change we personally experience from time to time we obstinately deny to our principles.—Zimmerman.