He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)
Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.
Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.