They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
George MacDonaldWe are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.
George MacDonaldThe birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.
George MacDonald