To know the world, not love her, is thy point;
She gives but little, nor that little long. 
—­Young.

I am not at all uneasy that I came into, and have so far passed my course in this world; because I have so lived in it that I have reason to believe I have been of some use to it; and when the close comes, I shall quit life as I would an inn, and not as a real home.  For nature appears to me to have ordained this station here for us, as a place of sojournment, a transitory abode only, and not as a fixed settlement or permanent habitation.—­Cicero.

The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship.—­George MACDONALD.

The world is a bride superbly dressed; who weds her, for a dowry must pay his soul.—­Hafiz.

O who would trust this world, or prize what’s in it,
That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev’ry minute? 
—­Quarles.

This world is God’s world, after all.—­Charles Kingsley.

There is another and a better world.—­Kotzebue.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.—­Bovee.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.—­Locke.

Take this as a most certain expedient to prevent many afflictions, and to be delivered from them:  meddle as little with the world, and the honors, places and advantages of them, as thou canst.  And extricate thyself from them as much, and as quickly as possible.—­Fuller.

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or wounded heart.—­Lady BLESSINGTON.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.—­Southey.

Thou must content thyself to see the world so imperfect as it is.  Thou wilt never have any quiet if thou vexest thyself, because thou canst not bring mankind to that exact notion of things and rule of life which thou hast formed in thy own mind.—­Fuller.

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.—­Jean INGELOW.

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.—­H.W.  Shaw.

O what a glory doth this world put on,
For him who with a fervent heart goes forth,
Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks
On duties well performed and days well spent. 

          
                          —­Longfellow.