Quotes By William Godwin

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.