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This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own, It is the worst world that ever was known.

Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.

The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

This world's a bubble.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.

Let the world slide.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft.

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a little thing.

But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.

He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says--what says he?--Caw.

'Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own; 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.