Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
William GodwinThe subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
William GodwinMy 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