Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.
She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.