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.