My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. – 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
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
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. – William Godwin