What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
While my mother lived, I always felt to a certain degree as if I had somebody who was my superior and who… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause,… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Godwin on Fenelon and his Valet * Following is an excerpt from William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Book II, Chapter II: “Of Justice”:… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list;… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
