Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. – 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. – John Locke
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. – John Locke
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. – John Locke
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. – John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. – John Locke
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. – John Locke
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. – John Locke
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. – John Locke
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. – John Locke
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. – John Locke
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. – John Locke
To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. – John Locke
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. – John Locke
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. – John Locke
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. – John Locke
