Charles Buxton

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

Charles Buxton

In life, as in chess, ones own pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him.

Charles Buxton

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

Charles Buxton

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

Charles Buxton

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

Charles Buxton