I have met Kingsley later, in his cloistered nest, as Canon of Westminster, and remember how heartily he expressed his abundant charity for all sorts of miserable sinners, especially about one of whom I came to speak, for there never lived a more universal excuser of human imperfection than Charles Kingsley.
"My Life as an Author"
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Il faut excuser la servitude.
"A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux"
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
K. is bosh; I have no use for him; but we must do what we can with the fellow meanwhile; he is good-humoured and honest, but inefficient, idle himself, the cause of idleness in others, grumbling, a self-excuser - all the faults in a bundle.
"Vailima-Letters"
Stevenson, Robert Louis