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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

Cause

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

John Locke

Parents

Wonder

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

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

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.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

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

John Locke

Trying

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.

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

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

John Locke

Knowledge

World

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

John Locke

Rudeness

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

John Locke

Men

Questions

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.