“Persuasion is often more effectual than force.”

“Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment”

“A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke”

“There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.”

“Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3)”

“and if she wasn’t precisely pretty, she had a force of character that is often more attractive than simple beauty.”