Quotes by : William Godwin

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

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be....

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would.....

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

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

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and....

To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine....

Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till the....

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill....