When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Dada covers things with an artificial tenderness. It is snowing butterflies that have escaped from a prophet's head.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.