Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all

The dreary intercourse of daily life.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,

Help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A Fletcher Carney: Little Things, 1845.

Yet do I fear thy nature;

It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5.

That best portion of a good man's life,—

His little, nameless, unremembered acts

Of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

The man that lays his hand upon a woman,

Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch

Whom 't were gross flattery to name a coward.

John Tobin (1770-1804): The Honeymoon. Act ii. Sc. 1.

They love their land because it is their own,

And scorn to give aught other reason why;

Would shake hands with a king upon his throne,

And think it kindness to his Majesty.

Alfred Bunn (1790-1860): Connecticut.

Not always actions show the man; we find

Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 109.