Quotes by : William Godwin

I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am....

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by....

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected....

Strange that men, from age to age, should consent to hold their lives at the breath of another, merely....

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest....

Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be....

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.