“Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.”
“Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.”
“When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.”
“...there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.”
“I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.”
“No. Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.”