To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

"All this shall pass away." Then why not enjoy the few days we have? All we possess is just loaned to us.

He has enough who is content.

"You're a boat owner, Pete," Cass said. "You know how it feels." "I sure do. They say the two happiest days in a man's life are the day he buys his boat and the day he sells it," Pete said.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become-to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

When in doubt, do without.

No possession is gratifying without a companion.