“Tenderness is a virtue.”

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

I wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.

Where you are tender, you speak your plural.