Quotes from Charles Kingsley

Some people think that there are no fairies. But it is a wide world, and plenty of room in it for fairies, without people seeing them; unless, of course, they look in the right place.

children always wake after they have slept exactly as long as is good for them..

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful.  Beauty is God's handwriting—a way-side sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank Him for it, who is the Fountain of all loveliness, and drink it in simply and earnestly with all your eyes; it is a charmed draught, a cup of blessing. True Words to

There must be fairies; for this is a fairy tale: and how can one have a fairy tale if there are no fairies?

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

Men must work, and women must weep.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

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

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

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.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

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.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song.

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

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

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.

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.