What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?
George MacDonaldThe best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
George MacDonaldTrust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
George MacDonaldEvery soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.
George MacDonaldWhat a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.
George MacDonald