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Quotes by Charles Kingsley

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
– Charles Kingsley
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
– Charles Kingsley
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
– Charles Kingsley
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
– Charles Kingsley
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
– Charles Kingsley
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
– Charles Kingsley
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
– Charles Kingsley
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
– Charles Kingsley
The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
– Charles Kingsley
The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
– Charles Kingsley
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
– Charles Kingsley
We have used the Bible as if it was a constable's handbook - an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
– Charles Kingsley
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
– Charles Kingsley
Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
– Charles Kingsley
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
– Charles Kingsley
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
– Charles Kingsley
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
– Charles Kingsley
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
– Charles Kingsley
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
– Charles Kingsley