Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.