A nation does wisely, if not well, in starving her men of genius. Fatt — Charles Buxton

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

"Many men’s thoughts are not acorns, but merely pebbles."

"Cervantes speaks of potted wisdom of "short sentences drawn long experience."

"Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A man’s venom poisons himself more than his victim."

"Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P., in his pamphlet, "How to Stop Drunkenness," says: "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 the lower order might be indefinitely raised. Not only does this vice produce all kinds of wanton mischief, but it has also a negative effect of great importance. It is the mightiest of all the forces that clog the progress of good. * * * The struggle of the school, the library and the church, all united against the beer-shop and the gin-palace, is but one development of the war between Heaven and hell. It is, in short, intoxication that fills our jails; it is intoxication that fills our lunatic asylums; it is intoxication that fills our work-houses with poor. Were it not for this one cause, pauperism would be nearly extinguished in England."

"Christianity is intensely practical. She has no trait more striking than her common sense."