“Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!”
“In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”
“What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.”
“Fermented grief is far more potent”
“As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.”
“Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.”