Love (n.) is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
Love (n.) is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds... and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
Love (n.) is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
Love (n.) is the same thing as war and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Love (n.) is an enemy which cannot be defeated by hand to hand combat: only by flight!