When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: / But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.

Encouraging Robert E. Lee to take a job as college president, "You might be presenting to the world in such a position an example of quiet usefulness and gentle patriotism.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead