209 Quotes by Charles Kingsley

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower.

Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.

My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is to have every one whom we meet for our brother in the sight of God; that it is this, never to meet anyone, however bad he may be, for whom we cannot say: "Christ died for that man, and Christ cares for him still. He is precious in God's eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also".

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

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

The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.