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.

— Charles Kingsley

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

— Charles Kingsley

And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

— Charles Kingsley

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

— Charles Kingsley

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.

— Charles Kingsley

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever to Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

— 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.

— Charles Kingsley

Did not learn men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyls: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.

— Charles Kingsley

Do noble things do not dream them all day long.

— Charles Kingsley

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.

— Charles Kingsley