Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.