We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own

Clearly you did not rise to your exalted position through sales,” she said after a moment, only the faintest catch in her dry voice. “Because your pitch could use some work.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth