Technologies of easy travel “give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore,...

The garnets,’ Sniff moaned. ‘I didn’t get a single one.’ Snufkin sat down beside him and said kindly: ‘I know. But that’s how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now I just...

The less I have, the less I can lose.

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.

What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

A man’s Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.

Less possessing-less possessed.More possessing-more possessed.More possessed-less accessed.Less possessed-more accessed.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only...

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to...

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus...

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they...