If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. – 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
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – 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