“Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)”
“The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.”
“You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.”
“Always, worlds within worlds.”
“Books were in the world; the world was in books.”
“I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire.”