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
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. – William Godwin
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. – William Godwin
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius… he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. – William Godwin
Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool. Such men have the quaint habit of discovering things fifty years after all the world knows about them — because they read only their own language. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) #bilingual #trilingual