Locke, John

"We are like chameleons, taking complexion from the things about us."

"Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered."

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

"The freedom then of man and liberty of acting according to his own will is grounded on his having reason."

"Esteem and disgrace are instantly avouched by the suffrage of the multitude."

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world."

"There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason."

"The acts of thinking and willing are not in the mind in the way that a table or a chair is in a room."

"Excessive grief for long unavailing, is a self-indulgence inconsistent with duty."

"The disease which inflicts despotism is the disease of power."

"Money is a barren thing, and produces nothing of itself."

"To love others is not a burden; but when love becomes duty, it loses its charm."

"Time is the best revealer of truth."

"Confidence in one's self is the first requisite to great undertakings."

"Fear and hope are alike under the government of the will."

"The art of healing comes from Nature and not from the physician."

"Constant occupation prevents mischief."

"Piety is the true and acceptable worship of God."

"Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, a man is bound to be ignorant of many things."

"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for every one to conquer."

"What worries you masters you."

"The better for him that nobody's by to see him."

"Ideas come from sensation and reflection."

"The remedy of disorder is not to destroy order, but to restore it."

"Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions."

"Every man is born with a double right, first a right of freedom to his person."

"Good humor is the best climate for goodness."

"The love of retirement has, in all ages, been the virtuous man's ruling passion."

"The government must be established upon the consent of the governed."

"Patience and diligence, like faith, can remove mountains."