The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

Tenors get women by the score.

First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial