He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
John LockeTruth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.
John LockeMany a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
John LockeA man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
John LockeWhen I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.
John Locke