What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
Alexander PopeThus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Alexander PopeHow shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander PopeNature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope