A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these he may venture to call himself an architect.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches it does not fight battles. It is men real living who do all this.

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us then return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions and it took its toll on all my relationships on my physical health my emotional and mental health.

All mankind... being all equal and independent no one ought to harm another in his life health liberty or possessions.

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

Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

It is not the possession of truth but the success which attends the seeking after it that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness it is necessary to have deserved it.

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul.

So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Happiness is found in doing not merely possessing.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Material possessions winning scores and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran with its fundamentalist Islamic extremist government possessing nuclear weapons.