Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.

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

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

The sole equality on earth is death