The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.
No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.
Works of genius are the first things in the world.
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.
I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.