#Principles

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]"

"Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated"

"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."

"The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles."

"Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places."

"Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting."

"There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for."

"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."

"Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."

"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?"