Conversation is an art in which a man has all 45 mankind for competitors. Emerson.
Conversation is a traffic; and if you enter into it without some stock of knowledge to balance the account perpetually, the trade drops at once. Sterne.
Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly in our own garb and speech, and with the energy of health to select what is ours and reject what is not. Emerson.
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. Emerson.
Conversion—a grand epoch for a man; properly the one epoch; the turning-point which guides upwards, or guides downwards, him and his activities for evermore. Carlyle.
Conversion is the awakening of a soul to see 50 into the awful truth of things; to see that Time and its shows all rest on Eternity, and this poor earth of ours is the threshold either of heaven or hell. Carlyle.
Convey a libel in a frown, / And wink a reputation down. Swift.
Convey thy love to thy friend as an arrow to the mark; not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back again. Quarles.
Conviction, never so excellent, is worthless till it convert itself into conduct. Carlyle.
Copia verborum—Superabundance of words.