Certain it is, that the influence of most things on our passions is not so much from the things themselves, as from our opinions concerning them; and these again depend very much on the opinions of other men, conveyable for the most part by words only.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
The way to get full of a subject, to generate a conveyable interest, is to fill up on the subject.
"Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest"
J. Frank Dobie