not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people,
of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching,
should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors,
then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to
the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and
Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.--LUTHER.

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be
put into a sermon as what is.--CECIL.

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age,
sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the
same key.--J. PETIT-SENN.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made
their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest
hearer.--EMERSON.

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with
long and tedious preaching.--LUTHER.

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own;
who seeks my salvation, and not his own vainglory. He best deserves to
be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts
only to promote truth and virtue.--MASSILLON.

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 adopt