Quotes by : William Godwin

In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons,....

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to....

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not....

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

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand....

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment....

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long....

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence....