209 Quotes by Charles Kingsley

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.

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

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.

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

The world is God's world, after all.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.