“This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul, if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!” by William Wilberforce

"I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion and religious meditation, scripture-reading, etc. Hence I am lean and cold and hard. I had better allot two hours or an hour and a half daily. I have been keeping too late hours, and hence have had but a …