If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that read more

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Teach me to live that I may dread
The grace as little as my bed.

Teach me to live that I may dread
The grace as little as my bed.

Whatever he did, was done with so much ease,
In him alone 'twas natural to please.

Whatever he did, was done with so much ease,
In him alone 'twas natural to please.

How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.

How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.

Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe read more

Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul

LightWinged Smoke
Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and read more

LightWinged Smoke
Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
-Henry David Thoreau-.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.