If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.
William GodwinThe execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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 GodwinThere is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.
William Godwin