We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.

What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

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.