Reputation 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 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 CURTISBooks of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAge is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISFor nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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 CURTISIn the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISCriticism is not construction, it is observation.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPrussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISBooks are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness lies, first of all, in health.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISTrue invective requires great imagination.
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 CURTISDreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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 CURTIS