As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin

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

They held it their duty to live but for their country.
William Godwin

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
William Godwin

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
William Godwin

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
William Godwin

My 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

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
William Godwin