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
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is Gods handwriting. – 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
In these pages the novelist should be able to find a striking verse to head his chapter, the raconteur add to his bon mots, the man of the world enrich his stock of maxims, the divine obtain some deep thought drawn from the wells of ancient learning. – William Francis Henry King, “Introduction,” Classical and Foreign Quotations, 18