Active Principle

Famous quotes containing the words active and/or principle:

“The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economised by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)