The Princess and the Goblin (Unabridged Start Publishing LLC)

by George MacDonald

but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less.

Seeing is not believing – it is only seeing.

But in the meantime you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.’ ‘What is that, grandmother?’ ‘To understand other people.’