Westward Ho! Or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth

“give the devil rope, and he will hang himself.””

— Charles Kingsley

“He was one of those men, moreover, who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them;””

— Charles Kingsley

“Blow freshly, freshlier yet, thou good trade-wind, of whom it is written that He makes the winds His angels, ministering breaths to the heirs of His salvation. Blow freshlier yet, and save, if not me from death, yet her from worse than death. Blow on, and land me at her feet, to call the lost lamb home, and die!””

— Charles Kingsley

“Greatness? I have tasted that cup within the last twelve months; do I not know that it is sweet in the mouth, but bitter in the belly?””

— Charles Kingsley

“the age in which the Romish Church had made marriage a legalized tyranny, and the laity, by a natural and pardonable revulsion, had exalted adultery into a virtue and a science? That all love was lust; that all women had their price; that profligacy, though an ecclesiastical sin, was so pardonable, if not necessary, as to be hardly a moral sin,””

— Charles Kingsley

“For when all things were made, none was made better than this: to be a lone man's companion, a sad man's cordial, a chilly man's fire. . . . There is no herb like it under the canopy of heaven.””

— Charles Kingsley

“They had slipped past the southern point of Grenada in the night, and were at last within that fairy ring of islands, on which nature had concentrated all her beauty, and man all his sin.””

— Charles Kingsley

“For Nature, which has peopled the land with rational souls, may not have left the sea altogether barren of them””

— Charles Kingsley

“Why should we long for the next world, before we are fit even for this one?””

— Charles Kingsley