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

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
Charles Kingsley

There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Charles Kingsley

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

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

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Charles Kingsley

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