Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveller cast off his cloak,

Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams without any noise
will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering
winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.
Robert Leighton (1611-1684)

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