Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden a dim twilight and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels but I have seen thee and thou art enough.