Charles Kingsley Quotes

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.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

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

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

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

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.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

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

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

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

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.

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

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

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

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

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.

Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

All but God is changing day by day.

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

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.

The world is God's world, after all.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.