A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping ...

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

A little more than kin, and less than kind!

Be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows The best I had, a princess wrought it me And I did never ask it you again; And with my ha ...