(A)t least simulated vulnerability is bearable/for those/who cannot/withstand unreasonable tenderness.

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

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

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.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.