George William Curtis Quotes
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis
I walked beside the evening sea
And dreamed a dream that could not be;
The waves that plunged along the shore
Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
While we read history we make history.
George William Curtis
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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.
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
