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• The thoughts that come unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
  -- John Locke...
• We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
  -- John Locke (1632-1704)...
• We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
  -- John Locke...
• No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. -- John Locke
• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
  -- John Locke...
• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
• Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking.
  It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. -- Christopher Morley...
• Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is.
  That is the smile: that what might not be, is. -- John Fowles, The Magu...
• Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. John Dyke