Charles Kingsley

“Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“There is a great deal of human nature in man.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.”

“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 speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.”

“Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.”