More die in flight than in battle.

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

Women can do nothing that has permanence.

It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

More die in flight than in battle.

If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.