As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

Persuasion is better than force.

''For your own good'' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Those that will not hear must be made to feel.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.