Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. – George MacDonald
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. – George MacDonald
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. – George MacDonald
One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. – George MacDonald