No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?
William Wilberforcetrue Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude
William WilberforceThe first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
William WilberforceLet everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
William Wilberforce