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.

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.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society it is a good thing if you possess great talent to give early in your youth a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that be a snob.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess and no matter how good one's sentiments may be if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge more than money more than honor to the persons who possess it.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property not seize it.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands that I still possess.

Someday in the distant cyborg future when our internal and external memories fully merge we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past the present and the future that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.