Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
John LockeChildren generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
John LockeIf you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
John LockeThe dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.
John Locke