When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. – George MacDonald
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. – George MacDonald

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. – George MacDonald
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. – 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
Heres my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then theres this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. – Carl Hiaasen