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When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit,-- I am perplext, and often stricken mute. Wondering which attained the higher bliss, The wing'd insect, or the chrysalis It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.

As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.

Exclusive property is a theft against nature.

When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.

I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd.

Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."

It may be said of them , as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows the sun never sets.

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?