Quotes by : William Godwin

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

While my mother lived, I always felt to a certain degree as if I had somebody who was my superior and....

Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in....

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

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

It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain....

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

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

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

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.