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

John Locke

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

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

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke

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

John Locke

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

John Locke

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

John Locke

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

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

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