If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

'Tis a very good world we live in
To spend, and to lend, and to give in;
read more

'Tis a very good world we live in
To spend, and to lend, and to give in;
But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is but read more

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the
invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in
equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in
that invisible fabric.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by read more

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.