Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. Hazlitt.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. Hazlitt.

Grace is a light superior to Nature, which should direct and preside over it. Thomas à Kempis.

Grace is a plant, where'er it grows / Of pure 35 and heavenly root; / But fairest in the youngest shows, / And yields the sweetest fruit. Cowper.

Grace is in garments, in movements, and manners; beauty in the nude and in forms. Joubert.

Grace is more beautiful than beauty. Emerson.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. Schiller.

Grace is the proper relation of the acting person to the action. Winckelmann.

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the 40 mind. La Roche.

Grace pays its respects to true intrinsic worth, not to the mere signs and trappings of it, which often only show where it ought to be, not where it really is. Thomas à Kempis.