Charles Buxton Quotes
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To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.
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All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.
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In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
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Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
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How strangely easy difficult things are!
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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.
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You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
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Concentration alone conquers.
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The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
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Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.
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One of the finest sayings in the language is John Foster's 'Live mightily.'