Restraint is the better part of beauty. Frances Gray Patton More Quotes by Frances Gray Patton More Quotes From Frances Gray Patton empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions. Frances Gray Patton empathy emotion humans To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character. Frances Gray Patton errors steps character