Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.