Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.