"All actions and attitudes of children are graceful, because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment — divested of affectation, and free from all pretence."

"Nature makes no parade of her means— hence all studied grace is unnatural."

"Grace is beauty in motion, or rather grace regulates the air, the attitudes and movements of beauty."

"Let grace and goodness be the principal lodestone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue."

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

"When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace."

"Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting to-day for costly grace."

"Grace […] is a participation in the Divine Nature."

"If you should find me dead one morning, don't worry. It's just that papa le bon Dieu has come to fetch me. Without doubt it is a great grace to receive the Sacraments, but when God does not permit it, that is fine just the same. All is Grace."

"She carries a pearl In perfect condition. What once was hers, What once was friction, What left a mark, No longer stains, Because Grace makes beauty Out of ugly things."

"Find the Grace in the things you can’t change, and help somebody if you can."

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

"Sola gratia"

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

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

"Ye are fallen from grace."

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

"The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity."

"Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?"

"He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad."

"God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content."

"Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat."

"If goodness leade him not, yet wearinesse May tosse him to my breast."

"Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view, That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies."

"And learn the luxury of doing good."

"Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange, Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst."

"For all their luxury was doing good."

"If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad."

"Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."

"Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!"

"Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good."

"Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade."

"That good diffused may more abundant grow."

"Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando."

"Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et lætari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis."

"No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first."

"One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity."

"The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between."

"For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do."

"Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth."

"What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well."

"Whatever any one does or says, I must be good."

"Human nature is evil; its goodness derives from conscious activity. Now it is human nature to be born with a fondness for profit. Indulging this leads to contention and strife, and the sense of modesty and yielding with which one was born disappears. One is born with feelings of envy and hate, and, by indulging these, one is led into banditry and theft, so that the sense of loyalty and good faith with which he was born disappears. One is born with the desires of the ears and eyes and with a fondness for beautiful sights and sounds, and, by indulging these, one is led to licentiousness and chaos, so that the sense of ritual, rightness, refinement, and principle with which one was born is lost. Hence, following human nature and indulging human emotions will inevitably lead to contention and strife, causing one to rebel against one’s proper duty, reduce principle to chaos, and revert to violence. Therefore one must be transformed by the example of a teacher and guided by the way of ritual and rightness before one will attain modesty and yielding, accord with refinement and ritual, and return to order."

"They live best, I think, who strive best to become as good as possible: and the pleasantest life is theirs who are conscious that they are growing in goodness."

"For avoiding slavery to the belly or to sleep and incontinence, is there, think you, any more effective specific than the possession of other and greater pleasures, which are delightful not only to enjoy, but also because they arouse hopes of lasting benefit? ... Do you think then that out of all this thinking there comes anything so pleasant as the thought: ‘I am growing in goodness and I am making better friends'? And that, I may say, is my constant thought."

"What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle, — generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration."

"In Donald's mind, even acknowledging an inevitable threat would indicate weakness. Taking responsibility would open him up to blame. Being a hero- being good- is impossible for him."