"The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men"

"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"

"No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point"