Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
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 desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.