Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Anyone who thinks there aren't two sides to every argument is probably in one.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

Positive, adj. Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy, but he who has shown the most forbearance and the better temper.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we d never be done with it.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.