Charles Buxton

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

— Charles Buxton

Silence is the severest criticism.

— Charles Buxton

How strangely easy difficult things are!

— Charles Buxton

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

— Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

— Charles Buxton

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.

— Charles Buxton

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

— Charles Buxton

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

— Charles Buxton

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

— Charles Buxton

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

— Charles Buxton

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

— Charles Buxton