Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

May you have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness

I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind!

I have not bestowed my tenderness anywhere. I have never had any such thing.