For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.
I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.
The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.
A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.
Love is the subtlest force in the world.
There are four different kinds of power in a communication: position power (the CEO talking to her direct reports), emotion power (passion sometimes rules the day), expertise (people often listen to the most knowledgeable person in the room), and conversational power (the subtlest, this is the ability to direct the conversation through body language).
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable. . . it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities. . . I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.
The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world.
Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
