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.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.