There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. – William Godwin
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. – William Godwin
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. – William Godwin
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. – William Godwin
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James