George MacDonald

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."

"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen."

"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

"The principle part of faith is patience."

"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power."