198 Quotes by William Godwin

A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

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

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

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.