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

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up