Charles Kingsley

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.”

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

“Men must work, and women must weep.”

“So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again; Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.”

“If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, and what people think of you.”

“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 for-ever One grand, sweet song.”