"Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort and joy? Here is centrality and penetration, strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real, and the moral rectitude which belongs to it: but all this and all his resources of wit and invention are lost to me in every experiment that I make to hold intercourse with his mind; always some weary captious paradox to fight you with, and the time and temper wasted "
