There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
From William Godwin
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.
But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
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