Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.