Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

— Charles Kingsley

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us terrify us teach us comfort us open their hearts to us as brothers.

— Charles Kingsley

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

— Charles Kingsley

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Charles Kingsley

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

— Charles Kingsley

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unrepressed on earth.

— Charles Kingsley

Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

— Charles Kingsley

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

— Charles Kingsley