Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons. [ A. B. Alcott ]

Some to the fascination of a name surrender judgment hoodwinked. [ Cowper ]

To bring nations to surrender themselves to new ideas is not the affair of a day. [ Draper ]

Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! [ Sterne ]

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]