"Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court."

"What a deformed thief this fashion is."

"O God, that man should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!"

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

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries."

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

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"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."

"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."

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