Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

The best cause requires a good pleader.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

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

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

I see that everywhere among the race of men it is the tongue that wins and not the deed.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teachers sake.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

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.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and, depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.

I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

We are in general more easily convinced by reasons that we have discovered ourselves, than by those suggested to us by others.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.