Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
John LockeThe power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
John LockeTo ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.
John LockeMany a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
John Locke