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

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

- John Locke

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

- 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

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

- John Locke

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

- John Locke

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

- John Locke

All wealth is the product of labor.

- John Locke

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.

- John Locke

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

- John Locke

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

- John Locke

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.

- John Locke

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

- John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

- John Locke

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

- 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

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

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

- John Locke

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

- John Locke