01UndatedIn the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued.William Godwin / quote ↗
02UndatedSympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.William Godwin / quote ↗
03UndatedIt is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.William Godwin / quote ↗
04UndatedWithout imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.William Godwin / quote ↗
05UndatedThere can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.William Godwin / quote ↗
06UndatedThere 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 / quote ↗
07UndatedThere is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.William Godwin / quote ↗
08UndatedAbove all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.William Godwin / quote ↗
