~Preaching.~--Preachers say, do as I say, not as I do. But if a physician
had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one
thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?--~Selden.~

~Preface.~--Your opening promises some great design.--_Horace._

A preface, being the entrance of a book, should invite by its beauty. An
elegant porch announces the splendor of the interior.--_Disraeli._

A good preface is as essential to put the reader into good humor, as a
good prologue is to a play, or a fine symphony is to an opera,
containing something analogous to the work itself; so that we may feel
its want as a desire not elsewhere to be gratified. The Italians call
the preface--La salsa del libro--the sauce of the book; and, if
well-seasoned, it creates an appetite in the reader to devour the book
itself.--_Disraeli._

~Prejudice.~--He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of
that.--_J. Stuart Mill._

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is
plain.--_Aubrey de Vere._

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.--_Pope._

Prejudice is the reason of fools.--_Voltaire._

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.--_Diderot._

~Present, The.~--Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is
gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is
passing.--_Goethe._

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering
present.--_Schiller._

'Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.--_Bovee._

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future
ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest
prospect.--_Thoreau._

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore, it
rushes on and carries us with it.--_Lamartine._

~Presentiment.~--We walk in the midst of secrets--we are encompassed with
mysteries. We know not what takes place in the atmosphere that
surrounds us--we know not what relations it has with our minds. But one
thing is sure, that, under certain conditions, our soul, through the
exercise of mysterious functions, has a greater power than reason, and
that the power is given it to antedate the future,--ay, to see into the
future.--_Goethe._

We should not neglect a presentiment. Every man has within him a spark
of divine radiance which is often the torch which illumines the darkness
of our future.--_Madame de Girardin._

~Press.~--The pre