John Locke

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

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

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

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

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

All wealth is the product of labor.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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.

What worries you, masters you.

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.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

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.

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

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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

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.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.