...Washingtonian Temperance Society, at Springfield, Illinois, on. 22 Feb., 1842, remarked, " It is an old and a true maxim ' that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall,' " though it was Sir Robert Walpole's expressed belief that more flies are caught by honey than by vinegar....

...of what America has to offer him. No better advice could be given than the words of Abraham Lincoln: "If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the greatest...

...anathema, — was to expect a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree, and can never be reversed. When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,...persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, " that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." So with men. If you...

...anything ; still less to be driven about that which is exclusively his own business " (Ibid, p. 86). " When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,...kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted " (Ib., p. 87). His nephew, Mr. Hall, informed me that Lincoln once made it cost a meddlesome clergyman,...

...toes are pinched. - Letter to Gen. Rosecrans, Mar. 17, 1863, vol. VilI, p. 228. How TO MAKE FRIENDS "A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon...are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason. - Temperance...

...anathema — was to expect a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed. When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,...persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim " that a drop of honey catches more flies thau a gallon of gall." So with men. If you...

...anathema — was to expect a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree, and can never be reversed. When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,...persuasion — should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim " that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." So with men. If you...

...anathema — was to expect a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree, and can never be reversed. When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,...persuasion — should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim "that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." So with men. If you would...

...our fathers, our brothers, our sons, and our friends prostrate in the chains of moral death. . . . When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,...persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim " that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." So with men. If you...

...our fathers, our brothers, our sons, and our friends prostrate in the chains of moral death. . . . When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,...persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim " that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." So with men. If you...