Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
William GodwinWe are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
William GodwinThe proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.
William Godwin