Interesting observation on kindness

This is something to ponder - that is, the ready assumption that people who are consistently kind find it easy to be so. Maybe not:

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

- Honoré de Balzac