Cultivate an eye for pleasant characteristics, and do not encourage people who are prone to rough speech.

Frown down the blunt expression of opinion and it will cease to be considered praiseworthy frankness.

The woman of whom the Royal Preacher speaks, "in whose tongue was the law of kindness," probably showed that kindness by being agreeable, or we may be sure no human being of the masculine gender would have considered her price far above rubies; nor add with such sublime confidence--"her husband also, and he praises her." One such woman never forgot to thank anyone for the slightest favor, and I have seen a burly and phlegmatically sombre policeman smile with unexpected pleasure at receiving the sweet-faced "thank you!" with which she always acknowledged his pilotage over a crowded street-crossing.
It is time that people comprehended that it is not their duty to be disagreeably frank, when another's comfort is the price thereof.

An unkind sentence has the power of lodgment in the mind.

It is like the red "chigoe" which inserts his tiny head in the flesh and burrows until he causes a throbbing fester.