Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand — having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

Because men are sentimental over women they will throw away military advantages, and hesitate and weigh the chances of failure when attack is their best or only hope, and lose their opportunity because they “have...

There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can...