The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong