Promises engage more effectually than presents. [ Proverb ]

Be not afraid of enthusiasm; you need it; you can do nothing effectually without it. [ Guizot ]

Ridicule often settles matters of importance better and more effectually than severity. [ Horace ]

Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The herb feeds upon the juice of a good soil, and drinks in the dew of heaven as eagerly, and thrives by it as effectually, as the stalled ox that tastes everything that he eats or drinks. [ South ]

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. [ Colton ]

In former days various superstitious rites were used to exorcise evil spirits, but in our times the same object is attained, and beyond comparison more effectually, by the press; before this talisman, ghosts, vampires, witches, and all their kindred tribes are driven from the land, never to return again; the touch of holy water is not so intolerable to them as the smell of printing ink. [ J. Bentham ]