There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself. Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man. Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is good will. A man can do only what a man can do.