Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Considered now as a possession one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

There is no knowledge no light no wisdom that you are in possession of but what you have received it from some source.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy no authority can revoke and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

It is not knowledge but the act of learning not possession but the act of getting there which grants the greatest enjoyment.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and possessions.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.