The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel. William Godwin Read Quote
Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking and feeling alone? William Godwin Read Quote
Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe. William Godwin Read Quote
Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration is never in all respects equal to the picture we had formed of it. The very uncertainty enhances the enjoyment. William Godwin Read Quote
It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation. William Godwin Read Quote
Tenderness is the name for a lover’s most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse. William Godwin Read Quote
There is a class of persons whose souls are essentially non-conductors to the electricity of sentiment, and whose minds seem to be filled with their own train of thinking, convictions, and purposes to the exclusion of everything else. William Godwin Read Quote
Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man from the brute. It is our special prerogative that we can converse with that which we cannot see and believe in that the existence of which is reported to us by none of our senses. William Godwin Read Quote
What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us? William Godwin Read Quote
In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain. William Godwin Read Quote
