Charles Kingsley Quotes

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

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.

Changeless march the stars above,Changeless watch the changeless heaven.

O Mary, go and call the cattle home,And all alone went she.

They rowed her in across the rolling foam,Across the sands of Dee.

For men must work, and women must weep,Though the harbor bar be moaning.

And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep—And good-by to the bar and its moaning.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;One grand, sweet song.