Charles Kingsley Quotes
An English clergyman, university professor, historian, and novelist.
(1819 - 1875)
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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.
[Friendship]
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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.
[Gentleman]
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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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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.
[Action]
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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.
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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.
[Duty]
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Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
[Labor]
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Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.
[Duty]
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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.
[Books]
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Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
[Feelings]
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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
[Will]
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How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill! - What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.
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If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.
[Style]
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If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself; about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.
[Misery]
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It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe, And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.
[Religion]
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
[Friendship]
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Make a rule, and pray to God to help you to keep it, never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say: "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, or a little happier, or at least a little better this day."
[Kindness]
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No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.
[Plagiarism]
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Nothing is so infectious as example.
[Example]
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