"Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement"

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

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

"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"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

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

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"