Precept.—­Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives.  When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.—­Seneca.

He that lays down precepts for the government of our lives and moderating our passions obliges human nature, not only in the present, but in all succeeding generations.—­Seneca.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.—­Seneca.

Precept must be upon precept.—­Isaiah 28:10.

Prejudice.—­Prejudice is the child of ignorance.—­Hazlitt.

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.—­Frederick Douglass.

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.—­Duchess
D’ABRANTES.

Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.—­Terence.

To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the present, as blind as he who cannot.—­South.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.—­Bancroft.

Prejudice may be considered as a continual false medium of viewing things, for prejudiced persons not only never speak well, but also never think well, of those whom they dislike, and the whole character and conduct is considered with an eye to that particular thing which offends them.—­Butler.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.—­G.D.  Prentice.

Remember, when the judgment is weak the prejudice is strong.—­Kane
O’HARA.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind.—­Addison.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.—­Madame Necker.

Present.—­Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.—­Horace.

Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity; know yesterday cannot be recalled, to-morrow cannot be assured:  to-day is only thine; which if thou procrastinate, thou losest; which lost, is lost forever:  one to-day is worth two to-morrows.—­Quarles.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.—­Schiller.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away:  enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.—­Horace.