(From "Warlock o' Glenwarlock," CHAPTER XVIII, A WINTER IDYLL)

"…and making her heart beat like the heart of Eve when first she woke alive, and felt what her Maker had willed! Life indeed was good! it was a blessed thing for the eyes to behold the sun!—Let death do what it can, there is just one thing it cannot destroy, and that is life."

George MacDonald

(From "David Elginbrod," Book II, CHAPTER XXXII, DEPARTURE)

George MacDonald

(From "The Portent," CHAPTER III - My Old Nurse's Story)

"…So, as a hundred times before, he gathered heart, and went on, doing his best, and trusting his hardest."

George MacDonald

(From "Warlock o' Glenwarlock," CHAPTER XXIII, AT COLLEGE)

George MacDonald

(From "Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood," CHAPTER XIV, MY PUPIL)

"…I have always to remind myself that something, even if it be far from the best thing, is better than nothing. Perhaps the only way to arrive at the best way is to make plenty of blunders, and find them out."

George MacDonald

(From "The Vicar's Daughter," CHAPTER XXIV, MY FIRST TERROR)

(From "Robert Falconer," Book III, CHAPTER VIII, MY OWN ACQUAINTANCE)

This looks like the Brig o' Dee rather than the Brig o' Balgownie!

George MacDonald

(From "The Seaboard Parish," CHAPTER VII, THE GATHERED STORM)