"We have seen better days."

"Do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."

"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind."

"I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow."

"I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I."

"I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve."

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

"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."

"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."

"He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument."

"The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence."