John Locke

“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.”

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”

“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”

“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.”

“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”

“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”

“Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.”

“Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.”

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.”

“As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.”

“What worries you, masters you.”

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”