Famous Quotes by Charles Kingsley

“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.”

And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things.

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? No love for the souls who have loved them?

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, but England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I.

When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away; Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

Nothing like one honest look, one honest thought of Christ upon His cross. That tells us how much He has been through, how much He endured, how much He conquered, how much God loved us.

In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.

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

Mathematical knowledge is not—as all Cambridge men are surely aware—the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form and number which every human being possesses.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among.

Fools! who fancy Christ mistaken; Man a tool to buy and sell; Earth a failure, God-forsaken, Anteroom of Hell.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. Do noble things, not dream them, all day long.

Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not 'desperately wicked,' it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

Grandeur... consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

Science was the child of Courage, and Courage the child of Knowledge.

Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their divineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles.

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world?

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

Logic like mathematics, seems to tell me too little about things. It does not enlarge my knowledge of man or nature; and those are what I thirst for.

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.