Without cheerfulness no man can be a poet. Emerson.
Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Addison.
Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life; yet among the people we name cultivated, little earnestness is to be found. Goethe.
Without economy none can be rich, and with 30 it few can be poor. Johnson.
Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser is the same to him as if it were another's. But when it is said of a man "he hath so much," it is with difficulty he can be induced to part with it. Hitopadesa.
Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not. Ecclus.
Without friends no one would choose to live, even if he had all other good things. Arist.
Without God in the world. St. Paul.
Without great men, great crowds of people in 35 a nation are disgusting; like moving cheese, like hills of ants or of fleas—the more, the worse. Emerson.
Without great men nothing can be done. Renan.