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 unredressed on earth.

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

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

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

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.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

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

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

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.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.