George William Curtis
» Age and Aging » “Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.”
» Anger » “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.”
» Civilization » “The test of civilization is its estimate of women.”
» Happiness » “Happiness lies first of all in health.”
» History and Historians » “While we read history we make history.”
» Men and Women » “Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.”
» Patriotism » “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.”
» Romance and Romanticism » “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.”
