If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. – 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
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
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. – George MacDonald