Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. – John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. – John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – 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
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. – John Locke
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. – Henry David Thoreau