Quotes By 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.

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

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

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

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

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.