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._
~Printing.~--Things printed can never be stopped; they are like babies
baptized, they have a soul from that moment, and go on forever.--_George
Meredith._
~Prison.~--Young Crime's finishing school.--_Mrs. Balfour._
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged
by an infamous life.--_Beecher._
~Procrastination.~--Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come
to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do
it.--_Charles Buxton._