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

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
Charles Buxton

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Charles Buxton

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
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

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.
Charles Buxton

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

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.
Charles Buxton

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton

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