Quotes by 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.”

“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper s...”

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”

“The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”

“Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and do...”

“Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.”

“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 ...”

“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.”

“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.”

“He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.”

“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.”

“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us terrify us teach us comfort us open their hearts to ...”

“Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.”

“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.”

“All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.”

“Do noble things do not dream them all day long.”

“There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.”

“Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.”

“Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.”