Age is not all decay: it is the ripening, the swelling of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie
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…to be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie
…a man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to rouse the honest.
George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, Second Series
A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too.
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind