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If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting read more
In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
[Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
[Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
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.
In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every
serious crisis is invariably read more
Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every
serious crisis is invariably wrong.
Earth took her shining station as a star,
In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Earth took her shining station as a star,
In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
