The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness is speechless.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISTrue invective requires great imagination.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPrussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAnger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAge is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA 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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISBooks are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur great social and political advantage is opportunity.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISI 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!”
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness lies, first of all, in health.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISRomance 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 CURTISEvery 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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHeroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISStratagem is the right hand of cunning.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS