Love, Present Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. - John Locke
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. - John Locke
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. - John Locke
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. - John Locke
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. - John Locke
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. - John Locke
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music. - Doc Watson
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. - Egon Schiele
And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you. - Justin Hayward
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. - Honore De Balzac