Quotes from Charles Buxton

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

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

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

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

The first duty to 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.

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

To make pleasure pleasant, shorten.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.