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

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke

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

All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
John Locke

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
John Locke

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
John Locke


Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
John Locke

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
John Locke

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
John Locke

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
John Locke

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke

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