"…As for her own feelings on the subject, she did not even know that there was such a bee-hive of honey and stings to be fallen into."

George MacDonald

(From "The Light Princess")

"...for God likes far better to help people from the inside than from the outside. They did not think that this might be just the fresh sting of life that the fainting pair required."

George MacDonald

(From "Warlock o'Glenwarlock," CHAPTER X.
PETER SIMON)

"...a strange longing after something ‘he knew not nor could name’ awoke within him…"

George MacDonald

(From "Robert Falconer," BOOK 1, CHAPTER XVII, ADVENTURES)

(From George MacDonald - "The Marquis of Lossie," CHAPTER LVI. MID-OCEAN)

"…The eyes of the daughter of man became rivers, and her head a fountain of waters, filled and glorified by the presence of a rose-tree."

George MacDonald

(From "Guild Court," CHAPTER XVII)

"…Selfishness, I repeat, whether in the form of vanity or greed, is our poverty."

George MacDonald

(From "There and Back," CHAPTER VII, COMPARISONS)

(From "Robert Falconer," Book I, CHAPTER XII, ROBERT'S PLAN OF SALVATION)

(From "Robert Falconer," Book I, CHAPTER XII, ROBERT'S PLAN OF SALVATION)

(From "Robert Falconer," Book I, CHAPTER XII, ROBERT'S PLAN OF SALVATION)

(From "Warlock o' Glenwarlock," CHAPTER XVIII, A WINTER IDYLL)

"…and making her heart beat like the heart of Eve when first she woke alive, and felt what her Maker had willed! Life indeed was good! it was a blessed thing for the eyes to behold the sun!—Let death do what it can, there is just one thing it cannot destroy, and that is life."

George MacDonald