In his early twenties, William Wilberforce experienced a powerful religious conversion which then altered the course of his life, turning him from a hedonistic young man to a devout religious crusader. Upon this conversion, his best friend, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, a man so completely dedicated to politics that he had no room for real religion, strove to understand his friend's new crusade:

"What I would ask of you, as a mark both of your friendship and of the candour which belongs to your mind, is to open yourself fully and without reserve to one, who, believe me, does not know how to separate your happiness from his own."

I love the way they used to write...

No one else cares. I know. Whatever.