Charles Buxton

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

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

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

"The first duty towards 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."

"It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in t…"

"One of the finest sayings in the language is John Foster's "Live mightily."

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

"To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them."