Thomas Fowell Buxton

In this world I shall never be anything but a mere moderate– behind the foremost, and before the last.

There are a great many poor people who are very sick, and yet have no money to buy food, or clothes, or physic; and there are many more so ignorant that they never heard of the Bible, and think they do very right, when they roast and eat …

No longer from Parliament with an easy mind, so we must be satisfied.

How wonderful are the ways of the Lord (God); how sweet his mercies, how terrible his judgements!

No man has a surplus of power: meaning by power— time, talents, money, influence.

I should very much like to be a country gentleman. I would not have the best horses, or dogs, or farms, in the county; but I would exert myself to improve the people who were under my influence.

I shall speak as well as I can for usefulness, but not for fame.

The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy and invincible determination – a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That …