An inborn grace that nothing lacked
Of culture or appliance —
The warmth of genial courtesy,
The calm of self-reliance.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

An inborn grace that nothing lacked Of culture or appliance — The warmth of genial courtesy, The calm of self-reliance.

An inborn grace that nothing lacked Of culture or appliance — The warmth of genial courtesy, The calm of self-reliance.

An inborn grace that nothing lacked Of culture or appliance — The warmth of genial courtesy, The calm of self-reliance.

An inborn grace that nothing lacked Of culture or appliance — The warmth of genial courtesy, The calm of self-reliance.