We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. John Locke Read Quote
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. John Locke Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke Read Quote
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke Read Quote
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke Read Quote
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 Read Quote
