Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Romance
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Men & Women, Men, Women
While we read history we make history.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Historians, History
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Birthdays, Age, Aging
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue’s sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Knowledge, Education
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
—George William Curtis
Happiness lies first of all in health.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Happiness
To have known one good old man—one man who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm branch, waving all discords into peace—helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other, more than many sermons.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Man
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Civilization, Woman
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Luxury, Anger
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Achievements
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Happiness, Health, One liners, Blessings
A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Patriotism
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
—George William Curtis
Topics: Anger
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- Edward Hoagland American Essayist
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- Thomas de Quincey English Essayist, Critic
- Jorge Luis Borges Argentine Writer
- Giacomo Leopardi Italian Poet
- Miguel de Unamuno Spanish Philosopher, Writer
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