Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.