“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

— Aesop, "The Lion and the Mouse"

About Aesop

Storyteller traditionally credited with a collection of Greek fables, said to have lived in the 6th century BCE.

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”

“Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”

“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”

“I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.”

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

“Kindness begets kindness evermore.”

“He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.”