Takao Ozawa, an assimilated Japanese man, sued for naturalization, in 1917, citing his Christian values, his American education, and his desire to "return the kindness which our Uncle Sam has extended to me".
The letter says the kindness which followed the fire was overwhelming.
Portland wrote to William in 1697 that "the kindness which your Majesty has for a young man, and the way in which you seem to authorise his liberties ... make the world say things I am ashamed to hear".
Our teens need to learn that kindness which is benevolent and compassionate behavior is an essential life skill.
About a quarter of the way through "Kindness," which is the longest and most complex of the stories, there's a particularly memorable scene.
It makes even more sense played next to "World, You Need a Change of Mind" (Female Energy/Polydor), the debut album by the British musician Kindness, which was released this week in England and is scheduled to be released in this country in May.
Years go by, nothing dims the hilarity of your comment on many things and the wisdom and kindness which informed it.
One thing that everyone has noted is the courtesy and personal kindness which she showed to those who worked for her, as well as her capacity to reach out to the young, and often also to those who were not, in the world's eyes, "important".
Kertész is a master of the hideous, thought-provoking inversion, which in his case was provoked, as this book reveals, by the odd acts of unbelievable kindness which assured his survival of the Holocaust: "What is truly irrational and genuinely inexplicable is not evil but, on the contrary, good".
Despite the premium the Bloomsbury set attached to truth-telling, as Angelica revealed in her acerbic memoir, Deceived with Kindness (which won the 1985 JR Ackerley prize for autobiography), she was allowed to believe Clive was her father until she was 18.
Wadsworth's wife, Beckie Scott, had been the beneficiary of a costlier act of kindness, which Wadsworth himself witnessed when he skied in the 2006 Olympics.
