62 Quotes by George William Curtis

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.

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.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.