"I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat"

"There are no gains without pains"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts"

"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome"

"One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without"

"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too"