You can buy treatises to show that Napoleon never lived, and that no battle of Bunker-hill was ever fought.

The great minds are those with a wide span, which couple truths related to, but far removed from, each other.
Logicians carry the surveyor's chain over the track of which these are the true explorers.

I value a man mainly for his primary relations with truth, as I understand truth,--not for any secondary artifice in handling his ideas.

Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment.

I should not trust the counsel of a smart debater, any more than that of a good chess-player.