Locke, John

"The science of virtue is the science of life itself."

"Where there is more virtue there is always less crime."

"No man ever makes a bad bargain who knows his own mind."

"The world was built upon the principle of good measure."

"As to me, I found that to bear calumnies with patience is the greatest victory."

"Diseases of the mind destroy the vigor of the body."

"The faculty of imagination is the greatest blessing of mankind."

"Liberty is the power that a man has over his own actions."

"In states matters must submit to necessity, and not necessity to the measures that states have taken."

"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt a man in the current of his discourse."

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason than because they are not already common."

"I have always been of the opinion that hard work is what makes dreams come true."

"The great secret of education is to direct the desire towards its true objects."

"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues."

"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information."

"Confusion and complaint always attend a government that cannot bring to account the administrators of affairs."

"The corruption of the best things produces the worst."

"To understand political power aright we must trace its original."

"The true contrast is not between democracy and authority; the real question is how to make authority tolerable."

"Nothing is so unequal as the equal treatment of unequal people."

"Experience, like a lamp upon the stern, only shines on the waves behind us."

"Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation."

"From whence then comes the right of punishing? From a right the injured has to preserve things noxious to him and so to restrain offensive creatures."

"The business of parents should be to make their son capable and willing to shift for himself."

"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude."

"No man can love his father and mother and continue in sin."

"Man was made for action and for bustle too."

"The candle that is lit for us is not lit for us alone."

"A man is known by his deeds, not by his words."

"We learn only as we practice; we grow only as we use our powers."