“My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.”

“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”

“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable”

“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine”

“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”

“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue”