Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.-Rochefoucauld.

PERCEPTION.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.-Richter.

Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.-Bishop Berkeley.

Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives one an idea of prophecy.-Lord Greville.

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.-Ruffini.

PERFECTION.

Among the other excellences of man, this is one, that he can form an idea of perfection much beyond what he has experience of in himself; and is not limited in his conception of wisdom and virtue.-Hume.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.-Chesterfield.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.-Voltaire.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.-Diogenes.

God never made his work for man to mend.
Dryden.

Every true specimen of perfection, or even excellence, of whatever kind it may be, from the moral down to the physical, elevates every instance of an inferior degree of excellence that we meet with, and sheds over it a portion of its own perfection.-Francis Lieber.

PERSECUTION.

Persecution often does in this life, what the last day will do completely, - separate the wheat from the tares.-Milner.

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.-Whately.

Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.-Bishop Latimer.

PERSEVERANCE.

The way of this world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Rev. N. Howe.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob.-Emerson.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.-Bible.

As long as the waters of persecution are upon the earth, so long we dwell in the ark; but where the land is dry, the dove itself will be tempted to a wandering course of life, and never to return to the house of her safety.Jeremy Taylor.

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

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Sir T. F. Buxton.

When I take the humor of a thing once, I am like your tailor's needle, — I go through.— Ben Jonson.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.-Simms.

If there be one thing on earth which is truly admirable, it is to see God's wisdom blessing an inferiority of natural powers, where they have been honestly, truly, and zealously cultivated. Dr. Arnold.

Perseverance is a Roman virtue, that wins each godlike act, and plucks success even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger.—

Havard. A falling drop at last will cave a stone.Lucretius.

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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.-Johnson.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong.-Carlyle.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.-Tennyson.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion.-Goethe.

It is only for those to employ force who possess strength without judgment; but the well advised will have recourse to other means. Besides, he who pretends to carry his point by force hath need of many associates; but the man who can persuade knows that he is himself sufficient for the purpose: neither can such a one be supposed forward to shed blood; for, who is there would choose to destroy a fellowcitizen, rather than make a friend of him by mildness and persuasion ? — Xenophon.

PERVERSENESS.

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.-Abd-el-Kader.

Perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart; one of the indivisible primary faculties or sentiments which give direc tion to the character of man.-Edgar A. Poe.

When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms him in his faith.-Junius.

Philosophy can merely resolve what is given to her giving is not the act of analysis, but of genius, which carries on its combinations according to objective laws, under the dim but sure guidance of the pure reason.-Schiller.

All philosophy lies in two words, "sustain " and "abstain."-Epictetus.

Philosophy is a bully that talks very loud when the danger is at a distance; but the moment she is hard pressed by the enemy she is not to be found at her post, but leaves the brunt of the battle to be borne by her humbler but steadier comrade, Religion.-Colton.

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.-Simms.

A philosopher has a system; he views things according to his theory; he is unavoidably partial; and, like Lucian's painter, he paints his one-eyed princes in profile.-Bulwer Lytton.

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.Carlyle.

Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.-Hume.

The condition and characteristic of a vulgar person is, that he never looks for either help or harm from himself, but only from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is that he looks to himself for all help or harm. Epictetus.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die.-Cicero.

When Philosophy has gone as far as she is able, she arrives at almightiness, and in that labyrinth is lost; where, not knowing the way, she goes on by guess and cannot tell whether she is right or wrong; and like a petty river, is swallowed up in the boundless ocean of Omnipotency.-Feltham.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.—Bulwer Lytton.

Hucheson, in his philosophic treatise on beauty, harmony, and order, plus's and minus's you to heaven or hell by algebraic equations, so that none but an expert mathematician can ever be able to settle his accounts with St. Peter, and perhaps St. Matthew, who had been an officer in the customs, must be called in to audit them.—Sterne.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.-Victor Cousin.

Philosophy is to poetry what old age is to youth; and the stern truths of philosophy are as fatal to the fictions of the one, as the chilling testimonies of experience are to the hopes of the other.—Colton.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.W. B. Clulow.

Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.-Cecil.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavi gate human nature.-Hare.

Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.-Quarles.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.-
Keats.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen to hit the white at any distance.-Seneca.

Philosophy is, to tell the truth, a homesickness, an effort to return home.-Novalis.

Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science encour ages conceit. He is above his companions. A hieroglyphic is a spell. The gnostic dogma is cuneiform writing to the million. Moreover, the vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself in a child on the seashore, and his discoveries in the colored shells. Willmott.

To be a husbandman is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.-Cowley.

Is it not in philosophy as in love? The more we have of it, and the less we talk about it, the better.-Landor.

Tooth-drawers are practical philosophers that go upon a very rational hypothesis, not to cure, but to take away the part affected.

Steele.

Queen of arts and daughter of heaven.-
Burke.

Philosophy, the formatrix of judgment and manners, has the privilege of having a hand in everything.—Montaigne.

The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation; he, therefore, is most wise, who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. This is impossible to a man of pleasure; it is difficult to the man of business; and is, in some degree, attainable by the philosopher. Happy were we all born philosophers, all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind. Goldsmith.

Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.-Colton.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.-Goldsmith.

In wonder all philosophy began; in wonder it ends; and admiration fills up the interspace. But the first is the wonder offspring of ignorance; the last is the parent of adoration.

Coleridge.

How charming is divine philosophy! not harsh nor crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute! -Milton.

Sublime philosophy! thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven, and bright with beckoning angels; but, alas! we see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, by the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.-Bulwer Lytton."

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.-Shakespeare.

There is a philosophy full of flowers, of amenity, and of sportiveness, as sprightly as it is sublime.-Joubert.

Philosophy is a modest profession, it is all reality and plain dealing; I hate solemnity and pretence, with nothing but pride at the bottom. Pliny.

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.-Bacon.

Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? —Keats.

Philosophy does not look into pedigrees. She did not find Plato noble, but she made him so.-Seneca.

He who philosophizes for himself meets, at every step, with difficulties, of which he who philosophizes for a school experiences nothing. Jacobi.

Admiration is the foundation of all philosophy, inquisition the progress, and ignorance the end.-Montaigne.

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.—Bacon.

All philosophy is only forcing the trade of happiness, when nature seems to deny the means.-Goldsmith.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.-Seneca.

Comte's philosophy in practice might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity.-Professor Huxley.

Philosophy, if rightly defined, is naught but the love of wisdom.-Cicero.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub! —Rivarol.

The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.— Voltaire.

PHYSIC PHYSICIAN.

Addison. Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it.Shakespeare.

Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man's own observation on what he finds does him good, and what hurts him, is the best physic to preserve health.—Bacon.

Guy Patin recommends to a patient to have no doctor but a horse, and no apothecary but an ass! —Chesterfield.

PHYSIOGNOMY.

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.-Dickens.

The rich patient cures the poor physician much more often than the poor physician the rich patient; and it is rather paradoxical, that the rapid recovery of the one usually depends upon the procrastinated disorder of the other.Colton.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.-Rush.

In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays but the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.—Magendie.

A murder-loving devil has taken possession of the medical chairs; for none but a devil would recommend to physicians blood-letting as a necessary means.-Van Helmont.

Physician, heal thyself.-Bible.

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more, reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.-Colton.

Time is generally the best doctor.-Ovid.

Experience is properly upon its own dunghill in the subject of physic, where reason wholly gives it place. Tiberius said that "whoever had lived twenty years ought to be responsible to himself for all things that were hurtful or wholesome to him, and know how to order himself without physic."-Montaigne.

F. G. Trafford.

There is no art whereby to find the mind's construction in the face.-Shakespeare.

It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.-Rousseau.

Pickpockets and beggars are the best practical physiognomists, without having read a line of Lavater, who, it is notorious, mistook a philosopher for a highwayman.-Colton.

He who observes the speaker more than the sound of words will seldom meet with disappointments.-Lavater.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.— Bovee.

PIETY.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.—Johnson.