“Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance”
“I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.”
“If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.”
