He was almost as tender-hearted as a woman.
The tender-hearted trait that's so prominent in Cancer is often misunderstood by other zodiac signs.
Though impatient in temper and occasionally rude, he was tender-hearted and generous.
Tender-hearted he might be in practice; but toleration he declares synonymous with "cowardly indulgence and false compasssion."
That he was slow, and perhaps too tender-hearted, in handling armed masses for action may be admitted, and though admirable for defensive war and a safe strategist, he showed himself unfitted to take the highly essential initiative, both because of temperament and his habitual exaggeration of obstacles and opposing numbers.