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"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."
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"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"
"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."
"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
"It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them, but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents."
"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"
"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."
"A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading."
Explore more quotes by William Godwin
"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
"But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference."
"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."
"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
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