=Pen.=

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
1323
BULWER-LYTTON:  Richelieu, Act ii., Sc. 2.

This dull product of a scoffer’s pen. 1324 WORDSWORTH:  Excursion, Bk. ii.

=People.=

And what the people but a herd confus’d,
A miscellaneous rabble, who extol
Things vulgar, and, well weigh’d, scarce worth the praise?
1325
MILTON:  Par.  Regained, Bk. iii., Line 49.

=Perfection.=

One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match, since first the world begun. 1326 SHAKS.:  Rom. and Jul., Act i., Sc. 2.

=Perjury.=

At lovers’ perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs.
1327
SHAKS.:  Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Perseverance.=

Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honor bright.  To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
1328
SHAKS.:  Troil. and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Persuasion.=

He from whose lips divine persuasion flows. 1329 POPE:  Iliad, Bk. vii., Line 143.

=Petitions.=

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
1330
FIELDING:  Tom Thumb the Great, Act i., Sc. 2.

=Philosophy.=

How charming is divine Philosophy! 
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo’s lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectar’d sweets,
Where no crude surfeit reigns.
1331
MILTON:  Comus, Line 476.

=Physic.=

Throw physic to the dogs, I’ll none of it. 1332 SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3.

Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.
1333
SHAKS.:  King Lear, Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Piety.=

Why should not piety be made,
As well as equity, a trade,
And men get money by devotion,
As well as making of a motion?
1334
BUTLER:  Misc.  Thoughts, Line 295.

=Pilot.=

Oh pilot, ’tis a fearful night! 
    There’s danger on the deep.
1335
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY:  The Pilot.

=Pines.=

Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines. 1336 COLERIDGE:  Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.

=Pipe.=

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp’d with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe. 1337 BYRON:  The Island, Canto ii., St. 19.

=Pity.=

Pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly.
1338
SHAKS.:  Timon of A., Act iii., Sc. 5.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. 1339 GOLDSMITH:  Des.  Village, Line 161.

=Place.=

The fittest place where man can die
    Is where he dies for man!
1340
MICHAEL J. BARRY:  The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844.