Charles Kingsley Quotes

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

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us terrify us teach us comfort us open their hearts to us as brothers.

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

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

The world is God's world after all.

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again Sweet wife. No never come over again.

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

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

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

Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

Do noble things do not dream them all day long.

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

And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

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 that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.

The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.

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

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

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.

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.