About Charles Kingsley: Charles Kingsley is particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin.
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.
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 down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but tha...
A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things."
The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
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 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.
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.
