"Why is the world so beautiful? is a question that we all ought to be embracing."

"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."

"There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution t…"

"Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes."

"People can’t understand the world as a gift unless someone shows them how it’s a gift."

"Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new."

"For, if the worlds In worlds enclosed should on his senses burst * * * He would abhorrent turn."

"Heed not the folk who sing or say In sonnet sad or sermon chill, "Alas, alack, and well-a-day! This round world's but…"

"Do we have all the hatred and all the aversion for the world which Our Lord requires, and which his example must insp…"

"If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of…"