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

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

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.

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