Charles Kingsley

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do…

— Charles Kingsley

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

— Charles Kingsley

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

— Charles Kingsley

“I have lived long enough in courts, old Amyas, without a murrain on you, to have found out, first, that it is…

— Charles Kingsley

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

— Charles Kingsley

“He will know better when he has outgrown this same callow trick of honesty, and learnt of the great goddess Detraction how…

— Charles Kingsley

Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those…

— Charles Kingsley

So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny…

— Charles Kingsley

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

— Charles Kingsley

“Up comes duty like a jolly breeze, blowing dead from the northeast, and as bitter and cross as a northeaster too, and…

— Charles Kingsley

“Don't talk of rights in the land of wrongs, man. But the Inchiquin knows well that the true Irish Esau has no…

— Charles Kingsley

“Oh, don’t hurt me!” cried Tom. “I only want to look at you; you are so handsome.”

— Charles Kingsley

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more…

— Charles Kingsley

“Stop!" said the Irishwoman. "I have one more word for you both; for you will both see me again before all is…

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Charles Kingsley

And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite…

— Charles Kingsley

“Fully agreeing with Sir Richard Grenville's great axiom, that he who cannot obey cannot rule, Lucy had been for the last five-and-twenty…

— Charles Kingsley

“And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you…

— Charles Kingsley

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and…

— Charles Kingsley

There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our…

— Charles Kingsley

“who, like other weak men, grew in valor as his opponent seemed inclined to make peace,”

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Charles Kingsley

Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will…

— Charles Kingsley

The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to…

— Charles Kingsley

How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of…

— Charles Kingsley