George William Curtis Quotes

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Every 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.

Heroes 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.

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

A 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.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.