Locke, John

"The freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by."

"Misspend the present moment in doubting how you shall make use of the next."

"Power cannot be arbitrary in a commonwealth built upon the foundations of justice."

"In all the great transactions of life, we are most of us guided by few principles and a great deal of accident."

"What worries you masters you."

"Time is the measure of business."

"He that would be inferior to nothing must be superior to some base actions."

"Faith, says the Scripture, is the evidence of things not seen."

"The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any of the sciences."

"We cannot live only for ourselves; a thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."

"The first and strongest desire that God placed in man was the desire of happiness."

"Wisdom I take therefore to be the right application of knowledge."

"Good humor is the best promoter of good will."

"Fortitude, when called to it, is the virtue of masters and commanders."

"Promises and contracts must be kept, for they are the cement of human society."

"The art of thinking is the most useful art."

"Man carries his sorrow in his heart."

"Dreams always have a home in the wandering mind."

"Every man is born with the faculty of sensation."

"Civility costs nothing and buys everything."

"Covetousness is both the beginning and the avenue to all other vices."

"All riches are the effects of labor and industry."

"The multiplication of laws constantly increases the rights of the executive at the expense of liberty."

"Truth is like the sun; you cannot look directly at it without being blinded."

"War is a state where every man is an enemy to every man."

"To maintain their freedom, people must remain vigilant against those who would curtail it."

"The credit of the government depends on the confidence of the people."

"Some lack of attention to the mind may produce disease."

"Temperance is the greatest of all the virtues."

"Nothing is so apt to produce peace and affection in families as forbearance."