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

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

"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…"

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

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

"Anchorite, who didst dwell With all the world for cell!"

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

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

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