“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please”

“Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible”

“A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy”

“Men argue; nature acts”

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little”

“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.”