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.

An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

Stately and tall he moves in the hall,
The chief of a thousand for grace.

Stately and tall he moves in the hall,
The chief of a thousand for grace.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

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-.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.