Top 12 Charles Buxton Quotes

It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised.

One of the finest sayings in the language is John Foster's "Live mightily."

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

How strangely easy difficult things are!

Silence is the severest criticism.

Concentration alone conquers.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.