Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?
Charles KingsleyThe traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.
Charles KingsleyI hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.
Charles KingsleyFor men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
Charles Kingsley