Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.