Quote #7
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
More from George MacDonald
- A true friend is forever a friend.
- We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.
- Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.
- That which is in a man, not that which lies beyond his vision is the main factor in what is about to befall him: the operation upon him is …
- Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the skies as I came through.
- We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
- Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the everywhere into the here.
- You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.