Quotes from Charles Buxton

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.

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters...all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.

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

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.