John Locke

"The great art of learning is to undertake but one thing at a time."

"Wherever law ends, tyranny begins."

"To love and be wise is not given to all."

"The improvements of the understanding are the same way with the improvements of all other things, by practice."

"He that would be superior to external events must make himself superior to external evils."

"Study without thought is labor lost; thought without study is perilous."

"God has made man such a creature that he is not capable of being alone."

"The soonest way to come to something is to go on."

"We cannot always trace the workings of the mind, but we always feel the results."

"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind than the whole race of politicians."

"The care of every man's soul belongs to himself."

"The mind, like the body, requires to be exercised; laziness renders it useless."

"Nature never wears the same expression twice, for her moods are infinite."

"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."

"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches among men."

"The measure of your real wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."

"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."

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

"Absurdities in the foundation will keep a building from rising to any considerable height."

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"Freedom of conscience is a natural right."

"No one can legislate love into existence."

"He who gets a reputation for early rising can sleep till noon."

"The freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together."

"What worries you masters you."

"The art of life is to know the proper measure of things."