
1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)
Source: Think and Grow Rich
1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)
“… happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release…”
“For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.”
History and Utopia (1960)
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 2 : On Youth
“Tis not possessions that bring happiness.”
La roba non fa mai l' uomo beato.
Act IV, scene vi
Timone (c. 1487)
“Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.”
Manders, Act I
Ghosts (1881)
“The possession of great powers, no doubt, carries with it a contempt for mere external show.”
“Life and Character of Almeda A. Booth”, Memorial address at Hiram College, (22 June 1876), in President Garfield and Education : Hiram College Memorial (1881) by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 420 http://books.google.com/books?id=rA4XAAAAYAAJ
1870s