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

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

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

Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.

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

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

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.