Partiality.—Partiality in a parent is commonly unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools, and the children that are least cockered make the best and wisest men.—L'Estrange.
As there is a partiality to opinions, which is apt to mislead the understanding, so there is also a partiality to studies, which is prejudicial to knowledge.—Locke.
Partiality is properly the understanding's judging according to the inclination of the will and affections, and not according to the exact truth of things, or the merits of the cause.—South.
Parting.—In every parting there is an image of death.—George Eliot.
Party.—He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man.—Lavater.
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes.—Colton.
Passions.—Passions makes us feel but never see clearly.—Montesquieu.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: the shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.—Sir Walter Raleigh.
The passions are the voice of the body.—Rousseau.
The advice given by a great moralist to his friend was, that he should compose his passions; and let that be the work of reason which would certainly be the work of time.—Addison.