Quotes by

Charles Kingsley

The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterdays sneer and yesterdays frown
Can never come over again. – Charles Kingsley

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

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is Gods handwriting. – Charles Kingsley

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. – Charles Kingsley

There is a great deal of human nature in man. – 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

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

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

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

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

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

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. – 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