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.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

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

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

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

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