When you have the power of time, you can take possession of your time, there is nothing you cannot become.

The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time. Tragically, though, it is that same time that is often least treasured or valued by men who still possess it.

The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

When we desire or solicit any thing, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own.

It is as unjust to possess a woman exclusively as to possess slaves.

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

How sweet an emotion is possession! What charm is inherent in ownership! What a foundation for vanity, even for the greater quality of self-respect, lies in a little property!

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

To possess, is past the instant We achieve the Joy-Immortality contented Were Anomaly.

To keep demands as much skill as to win.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.