This world has angels all too few,
And Heaven is overflowing!

-Coleridge. To a Young Lady.

Count the world not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live in, but to die in.

-Colton.

I saw young Harry,—with his beaver on,
His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd,-
Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,
And vaulted with such ease into his seat,
As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,
To turn and wind fiery Pegasus,
And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
-Shakspere. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Vernon).
Act IV., Sc. I.

The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune. -Sir P. Sidney.

Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited; the world in the eye of a philosopher may be said to be a large madhouse.

-Mackenzie.

We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it.

-Baron Wessenberg.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance, by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

-Emerson.

Be famous then

By wisdom; as thy empire must extend,
So let extend thy mind o'er all the world
In knowledge.

--Milton. Paradise Regained, Bk. IV., line 221.

Such souls

Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning; but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages.

-Sir H. Taylor. Philip van Artevelde, Pt. I. (Artevelde), Act I., Sc. VII.

And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.

-Longfellow. The Village Blacksmith.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which

no one can see.

-Chas. Kingsley. The Water Babies,

Chap. II.

The most magnificent and costly dome
Is but an upper chamber to a tomb;

No spot on earth but has supplied a grave, And human skulls the spacious ocean pave. -Young. The Last Day, II., line 87.

God's in His heaven

All's right with the world!

-R. Browning. Pippa Passes.

Fame, which is the opinion the world expresses of any man's excellent endowments, is the idol to which the finest spirits have in all ages burnt their incense.

—Sir R. Blackmore. The Lay Monastery,
No. II.

Rank? tinsel against bullion in the balance ! The love of kindred? That to set 'gainst love! Friendship comes nearest to 't; but put it in, Friendship will kick the beam! weigh nothing 'gainst it!

Weigh love against the world!

Yet are they happy that have naught to say to it. -Sheridan Knowles. The Hunchback (Julia), Act IV., Sc. II.

Things will work to ends the slaves o' the world Do never dream of.

-Wordsworth.

The Borderers (Oswald),
Act II.

If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies;
And they are fools who roam :
The world has nothing to bestow;
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut,—our home.

-N. Cotton. The Fireside, St. 3.

Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth.

-St. Augustine.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it ; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

-Southey.

The world is all title-page without contents.

-Young.

Once kick the world, and the world and you live together at a reasonable good understanding. -Swift.

The great see the world at one end by flattery, the little at the other end by neglect; the meanness which both discover is the same; but how different, alas! are the mediums through which it is seen!

-Lord Greville.

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world. -Vauvenargues.

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge is terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

-Quarles.