There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands. – Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. – John M. Barrie

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. – Giovani della Casa