Quotes by Charles Kingsley

• Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
• 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.
• Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
• All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
• A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
• 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.
• Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
• Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
• Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
• It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
• 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.
• The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
• 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.
• There is a great deal of human nature in man.
• There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
• We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
• Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
• He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
• Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.