Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

'Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.