Kind words are the music of the world.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Each hour comes with some little faggot of God's will fastened upon its back.

Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.

Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.