Quotes from author George MacDonald.
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"He could have been well content to pass his life as a shepherd, like his father, but for two things: he knew what it would be well for others to know; and he had a hunger after the society of books." ~The Shepherd's Castle
"Donal stood for a moment regarding the man and his work. In a minute the cobbler lifted a little wizened face and a pair of twinkling eyes to those of the student, revealing a soul as original as his own." ~The Shepherd's Castle
"The delight of creation is verily in secrets, but in secrets as truths on the way." ~ The Shepherd's Castle
"He sad down on the topmost point. And slowly in the silence and the loneliness, from the unknown fountains of eternal consciousness, the heart of the child filled. The mighty city that had been to him the universe was lost in the far indistinguishable distance; and he who had lost it had climbed upon the throne of the world. The air was still when a breath awoke - it but touched his cheek like the down of a feather - and the stillness was there again. The stillness grew great and slowly descended upon him. It deepened and deepened. It was as if a great single thought was the substance of the silence and was all over and around him, closer to him than his clothes, than his body, than his hands. In years after when Gibbie had the idea of God, when he had learned to think about Him, to desire His presence, to believe that a will of love enveloped His will, as often as the thought of God came to him, it came in the shape of the silence on the top of Glashgar."
~The Baronet's Song
"Gibbie's eyes grew wider and wider as he listened; it seemed as if his soul were looking out of doors and windows at once - but a puzzled soul that understood nothing of what it saw... The waking up of a human soul to know itself arouses so heavy a sense of marvel and inexplicable mystery. When by slow, filmy unveilings life grew clearer to Gibbie, he not only knew but knew that he knew, his thoughts always went back to that day in the meadow with Donal Grant as the beginning of his knowledge of beautiful things in the world of man." ~The Baronet's Song
