He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

Your gracefulness and feminine charms always so tender, you make my heart smile and wonder!

Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.

A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all that is expected or desired in a woman, she is left with nothing in its absence. It ‘is a most severe trail for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources,’ she argued.

Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise; Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games; Words to dance our true soul fires gracefully free.

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.