Charles Kingsley Quotes

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Virtue is harmony.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

Virtue is its own reward.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.