Peace.—­Blessed are the peacemakers:  for they shall be called the children of God.—­Matthew 5:9.

I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.—­George Eliot.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us—­avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.—­Petrarch.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.—­Washington.

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks:  nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.—­Isaiah 2:4.

I never advocated war except as a means of peace.—­U.S.  Grant.

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased.  One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul—­to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.—­Chapin.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired; but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.—­Andrew Jackson.

Perseverance.—­The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong.—­Carlyle.

It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech.  He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph; but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial.—­Charles James Fox.

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.—­Sir T.F.  Buxton.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.—­Bayard Taylor.

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 by canals.  If a 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.—­Dr. Johnson.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.—­Whipple.