I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.
George MacDonaldTo try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.
George MacDonaldAs no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.
George MacDonaldWhat distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?
George MacDonald