The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.