"Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water."

"Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."

"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."

"Strong reasons make strong actions."

"You shall more command with years than with your weapons."

"Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly."

"If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself."

"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."

"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."