Charles Buxton

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, bo ...

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conver ...

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, ...

A successful career has been full of blunders.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are t ...

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done ...

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

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

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

“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives him ...

“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.”

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

“The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged ...