George MacDonald Quote

     I was paging through George MacDonald's The Princess and Curdie the other day, when I came across this quote.  I think it's really quite beautiful.

     "The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go.  He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more.  The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born."