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
All but God is changing day by day.
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.
arouse comfort dead except hearts human living man message miles open sheets souls speak teach terrify thousands wonderful
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us 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, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
doll prettiest sweet
I once had a sweet little doll, dears, / The prettiest doll in the world.
justice ants should
I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.