Fowell Buxton

"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 quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it."

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

"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."

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

"I am no politician."

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

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

"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 their enemies!"

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