The world's a sea. Quarles.
The world's a wood, in which all lose their way, / Though by a different path each goes astray. Buckingham.
The world's battle-fields have been in the heart chiefly. More heroism has there been displayed in the household and in the closet, I think, than on the most memorable military battle-fields of history. Ward Beecher.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Holmes.
The world's wealth is its original men; by 25 these and their works it is a world and not a waste; the memory and record of what Men it loves—this is the sum of its strength, its sacred "property for ever," whereby it upholds itself and steers forward, better or worse, through the yet undiscovered deep of Time. Carlyle.
The worse the man, the better the soldier; if soldiers be not corrupt, they ought to be made so. Napoleon.
The worse things are, the better they are. Pr.
The worship of beauty apart from the soul becomes an idolatry enkindling desire instead of a reverence awakening devotion. Ed.
The worst deluded are the self-deluded. Bovee.
The worst education which teaches self-denial 30 is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. John Sterling.