209 Quotes by Charles Kingsley

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

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

There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks through our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up, it puts noble feelings in us, it can make us cringe; and it can melt us to tears; and yet we have no idea how. It is a language by itself, just as perfect in its ways as speech, as words, just as divine, just as blessed.

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.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand – nature; and do what a little child could do – love.

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.

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.

And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it.

You must not talk about ‘ain’t and can’t’ when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.