The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.

The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.

Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.

It's a funny old world-a man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.

If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.