Quotes from George William Curtis

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

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

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

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

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

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.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

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

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

While we read history we make history.

Happiness is speechless.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

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

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

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

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

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

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

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