The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history

A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess

The Gulf is the proof of Carnegie’s warning about wealth: ‘There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else

Taxidermy inhabits a half-life, an underpass between life and death. He is oddly vital, still possessed of an animating force, not as defunct as a corpse yet still nowhere near living. A talisman trapped between escape and dust

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

I was as pure as a river, But now I think I’m possessed, You put a fever inside me, And I’ve been cold since you left.

They are so open by heart that they share everything they possess with anyone.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.