The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise gratifies its curiosity and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Roosevelt's humor was broad his manner friendly. Of wit there was little of philosophy none. What did he possess? Intuition inspiration love of adventure.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

An emotional man may possess no humor but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess we act and think in vain and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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.

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

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an honest man.

One loves to possess arms though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Every time I took a long leave from home I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather take possession of what is my birthright my inheritance.

Throughout human history the apostles of purity those who have claimed to possess a total explanation have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

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.