Acts of kindness are the _outward manifestations of gentle breeding_--a refinement of character in the highest sense of the word.
What would we do in this world without the helping hand, the friendly word of cheer, the thought that others shared our losses and cheered our victories?
If consideration for our feelings and thoughts did not exist on this earth we would never know the depths of the love of our friends.
There would be no such thing as an earthly reward of merit.

We know that no matter what happens to us in the battle of life there will be someone to cheer us on our way.

We may be strong and thoroughly able to rely upon ourselves but there comes a time when we need friendship and sympathy.

Society would crumble into dust without these influences.

The family circle would degenerate into a hollow mockery if consideration each for the other was absent.