The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

It doesn't matter much what happens in this world, there's going to be somebody who'll tell you that he knew it would.

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!