Quotes by William Godwin

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit...

#William Godwin

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent...

#William Godwin

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well...

#William Godwin

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.

#William Godwin

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

#William Godwin

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and...

#William Godwin

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

#William Godwin

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

#William Godwin

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the...

#William Godwin

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to...

#William Godwin

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act...

#William Godwin

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

#William Godwin