Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.
A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.