It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not observed in history that families improve with time.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness lies, first of all, in health.
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 CURTISThe Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPatriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISVirtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISFor nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness is speechless.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISProgress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISWhile we read history we make history.
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 CURTIS