George William Curtis

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

— George William Curtis

The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.

— George William Curtis

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

— George William Curtis

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

— George William Curtis

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

— George William Curtis

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

— George William Curtis

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she…

— George William Curtis

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is…

— George William Curtis

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism…

— George William Curtis

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to…

— George William Curtis

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward,…

— George William Curtis

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

— George William Curtis

Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a…

— George William Curtis

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

— George William Curtis

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

— George William Curtis

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

— George William Curtis

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.

— George William Curtis

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of…

— George William Curtis

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

— George William Curtis

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

— George William Curtis

I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has…

— George William Curtis

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid…

— George William Curtis

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

— George William Curtis

For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.

— George William Curtis

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence…

— George William Curtis