Far Above Rubies

“Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.””

— George MacDonald

“Similarly, there are multitudes who lose their lives pondering what they ought to believe, while something lies at their door waiting to be done, and rendering it impossible for him who makes it wait, ever to know what to believe.””

— George MacDonald

“…for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;””

— George MacDonald

“Give me a chair and a table, fire enough to keep me from shivering, the few books I like best and writing materials, and I am absolutely content.””

— George MacDonald

“Sad-hearted, be at peace: the snowdrop lies     Buried in sepulchre of ghastly snow;””

— George MacDonald

“It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good.All who dream life, instead of living it,require some similar shock.””

— George MacDonald

“What a hell of horror, I thought, to wander alone, a bare existence never going out of itself, never widening its life in another life, but, bound with the cords of its poor peculiarities, lying an eternal prisoner in the dungeon of its own being! I””

— George MacDonald

“The part of philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.””

— George MacDonald

“respectability to good impulses””

— George MacDonald