Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

It's sad he was unable to say a kind word.