Kindness is virtue itself. [ Lamartine ]

One kindly deed may turn
The fountain of thy soul
To love's sweet day-star,
That shall over thee burn
Long as its currents roll. [ Holmes ]

Beauty lives with kindness. [ William Shakespeare ]

Kindness produces kindness. [ Proverb ]

Kindness is wisdom.
There is none in life
But needs it and may learn. [ Bailey ]

Kindness breaks no one's bones. [ German Proverb ]

Kindness gives birth to kindness. [ Sophocles ]

He had a face like a benediction. [ Cervantes ]

Kindness nobler ever than revenge. [ William Shakespeare ]

Kindness, the poetry of the heart. [ Aime-Martin ]

Paradise is open to all kind hearts. [ Beranger ]

The secret of happiness is
Do a kindness to some one every day. [ Unknown ]

One kindness is the price of another. [ Proverb ]

A forced kindness deserves no thanks. [ Proverb ]

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks. [ Proverb ]

Kind words are the music of the world. [ F. W. Faber ]

A small unkindness is a great offence. [ Hannah More ]

How wise must one be to be always kind. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Drinking kindness is drunken friendship. [ Proverb ]

Swift kindnesses are best: a long delay
In kindness takes the kindness all away. [ Anon ]

Generous as brave.
Affection, kindness, and the sweet office
Of love and duty, were to him as needful
As his daily bread. [ Rogers ]

Heaven in sunshine will requite the kind. [ Byron ]

Not always actions show the man; we find
Who does a kindness is not therefore kind. [ Pope ]

What is kindness? A principle in the good. [ Hitopadesa ]

And in their height of kindness are unkind. [ Young ]

Without kindness, there can be no true joy. [ Carlyle ]

He that asks a courtesy promises a kindness. [ Proverb ]

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love. [ William Shakespeare ]

I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;
I have sworn thee fair. [ William Shakespeare ]

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness. [ Cicero ]

Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness,
Chords that were broken will vibrate once more. [ Mrs. van Alstyne ]

Let us try what esteem and kindness can effect. [ Johnson ]

Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with. [ Proverb ]

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above. [ F. S. Osgood ]

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words. [ Landor ]

They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it,
I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss;
And until they can show me some happier planet.
More social and bright, I'll content me with this. [ Moore ]

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness. [ Joubert ]

To condemn a just commendation, is to kick at a kindness. [ Proverb ]

He merits no thanks that does a kindness for his own end. [ Proverb ]

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting. [ Johnson ]

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [ Syrus ]

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth. [ Bartol ]

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

A face with gladness overspread! Soft smiles, by human kindness bred! [ Wordsworth ]

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. [ Confucius ]

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full of the milk of human kindness. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [ Seneca ]

Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood. [ Tennyson ]

To reproach a man with your kindness to him is tantamount to an affront. [ Racine ]

Acts of kindness are soon forgotten, but the memory of an offence remains. [ Proverb ]

When you receive a kindness, remember it; when you do a kindness, forget it. [ Proverb ]

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning. [ F. W. Faber ]

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. [ Byron ]

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. [ Arthur Helps ]

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs. [ Octave Feuillet ]

The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful. [ Parke Godwin ]

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can. [ Joubert ]

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others. [ Landor ]

Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious aild merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. [ Bible ]

It is better to keep children to their duty by a sense of honor and by kindness than by fear. [ Terence ]

Friendship consists properly in mutual offices, and a generous strife in alternate acts of kindness. [ South ]

A kindness is always delightful to a grateful man; to an ungrateful, only at the time of its receipt. [ Seneca ]

The world is full of love and pity. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. [ Thackeray ]

The best portion of a good man's life, -- his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. [ William Wordsworth ]

What a volume could be written on the word mother; what a history of forbearance, of kindness, and of love. [ James Ellis ]

A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness, gathers love. [ Basil ]

There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. [ Emerson ]

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [ Sallust ]

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness. [ Tupper ]

The man that lays his hand on woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. [ Tobin ]

He that is sensible of no evil but what he feels, has a hard heart; and he that can spare no kindness from himself, has a narrow soul. [ Collier ]

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. [ Johnson ]

Coarse kindness is at least better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness. [ George Eliot ]

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. [ Tillotson ]

Oppose kindness to perverseness. The heavy sword will not cut soft silk; by using sweet words and gentleness you may lead an elephant with a hair. [ Saadi ]

Great attention to what is said and sweetness of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment. [ Hitopadesa ]

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth. [ Chapin ]

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love. [ Hosea Ballou ]

It is not written, blessed is he that feedeth the poor, but he that considereth the poor. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. [ Ruskin ]

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. [ Bovee ]

To divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books; they presently fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kindness. [ Fuller ]

Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven. [ Fredrika Bremer ]

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. [ Demosthenes ]

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. [ Sir Humphry Davy ]

Friendship is more firmly secured by lenity toward failings than by attachment to excellence; the former is valued as a kindness, which cannot be claimed; the latter is exalted to the payment of a debt to merit. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Beautiful to Ledyard, stiffening in the cold of a northern winter, seemed the diminutive, smoke-stained women of Lapland, who wrapped him in their furs, and ministered to his necessities with kindness and gentle words. [ Whittier ]

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. [ A. B. Hegeman ]

The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention. [ Sterne ]

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others; and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. [ Bentham ]

The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother's birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another? [ Maltbie Babcock ]

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]

Sudden blaze of kindness may, by a single blast of coldness, be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be suppressed by disgust or resentment, with or without cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection. [ Johnson ]

Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like? - and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]

I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother. The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother, stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother. I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]