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

- Charles Buxton

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.

- Charles Buxton

A successful career has been full of blunders.

- Charles Buxton

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

- Charles Buxton

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

- Charles Buxton

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

- Charles Buxton

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

- Charles Buxton

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

- Charles Buxton

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

- Charles Buxton