Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.

Narcissus is the glory of his race:
For who does nothing with a better grace?

Narcissus is the glory of his race:
For who does nothing with a better grace?

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.

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.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell
That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell
That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.

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.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the read more

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.