The world remains ever the same. Goethe.
The world seldom offers us any choice between solitude on the one hand and vulgarity on the other. Schopenhauer.
The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves cannot drown him. Emerson.
The world still wants its poet-priest, who shall not trifle with Shakespeare, the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg, the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act with equal inspiration. Emerson.
The world that surrounds you is the magic 15 glass of the world within you. To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. Lavater.
The world throws its life into a hero or a shepherd, and puts him where he is wanted. Dante and Columbus were Italians in their time; they would be Russians or Americans to-day. Emerson.
The world truly exists only in the presence of man, acts only in the passion of man. The essence of light is in his eyes—the centre of force in his soul—the pertinence of action in his deeds. Ruskin.
The world, which took but six days to make, is like to take six thousand to make out. Sir Thomas Browne.
The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span. Bacon.
The world's a room of sickness, where each 20 heart / Knows its own anguish and unrest! / The truest wisdom there, and noblest art, / Is his who skills of comfort best. Keble.