“I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
“Punctuality is the thief of time”
“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
“It is personalities, not principles, that move the age”
“Circumstances should never alter principles!”
“Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.”
“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”