Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.
The gratification of wealth is not found in possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness lives in the soul.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
“What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
Freedom is the sure possession of those who have the courage to defend it.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.