A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISStratagem is the right hand of cunning.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISReputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAge is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISBooks of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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 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 CURTISBooks are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness is speechless.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIt is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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 CURTIS