The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. – 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
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke
When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. – John Locke