He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

We enter the world as strangers who all at once become heirs to a harvest of memory, spirit, and dream that has long preceded us and will now enfold, nourish, and sustain us. The gift of the world is our first blessing.

By solemn vision and bright silver dream
His infancy was nurtured. Every sight
And sound from the vast earth and ambient air
Sent to his heart its choicest impulses.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest conveniencies of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.

He believed he had a unique love for humanity and had been endowed with unprecedented gifts and insights to increase its felicity.

I had an inheritance from my father,
It was the moon and the sun.
And though I roam all over the world,
The spending of it’s never done.

I guess anything good you’ve ever been given is yours forever.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God.

The works of God, I always felt, were given freely to anyone who could appreciate them whether millionaire or pauper…