Quotes by John Locke

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

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Labour for labour's sake is against nature.

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

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

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.