Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsleywas a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth12 June 1819
faith want want-me
I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
freedom men two
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.
happiness running reality
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
love friendship trust
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.
men sooner women work
For men must work and women must weep./ And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
inside keeper outside turned
He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.