The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
The principal saloon was the Howlin’ Wilderness, an immense log cabin with a log fire always burning in the huge fireplace, where so many fights broke out that the common saying was, “We will have a man for breakfast tomorrow.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)