Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one read more

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.\r\n

He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would read more

He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay forth
No more upon it than 'twas worth;
But as he got it freely, so
He spent it frank and freely too:
For saints themselves will sometimes be,
Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.

In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in
proportion to the worth of read more

In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in
proportion to the worth of the thing given.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature

A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.