A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.