Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Germany must have her place in the sun.
The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions.
Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.
Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.
A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.
If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness. . . we shall find all its properties. . . under this short definition, that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.
If we are guided to give up our possessions, it will be a positive thing for us.
In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace.
Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
Music is everybody's possession.
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
I find all this money a considerable burden.