Charles Buxton (18 November 1823 – 10 August 1871) was an English brewer, philanthropist, writer and member of Parliament.
A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
You cannot win without sacrifice.
All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.
Proverbs are potted wisdom.
Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.
Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
A successful career has been full of blunders.
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.