In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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 CURTISDreams come true if you survive the hard times!
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHappiness lies, first of all, in health.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISCriticism is not construction, it is observation.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISImagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISFor nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISTrue invective requires great imagination.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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 CURTISA 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.
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 CURTISBooks are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS