C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Persuasion

Persuasion tips his tongue whene’er he talks.

Colley Cibber.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion.

Goethe.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.

Homer.

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

Milton.

He, from whose lips divine persuasion flows.

Homer.

It is only for those to employ force who possess strength without judgment; but the well advised will have recourse to other means. Besides, he who pretends to carry his point by force hath need of many associates; but the man who can persuade knows that he is himself sufficient for the purpose; neither can such a one be supposed forward to shed blood; for, who is there would choose to destroy a fellow citizen rather than make a friend of him by mildness and persuasion?

Xenophon.

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