62 Quotes by George William Curtis

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

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

The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

True invective requires great imagination.

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

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in the man in intelligent love. The patriot perceives the claim made upon his country by the circumstances and time of her growth and power, and how God is to be served by using those opportunities of helping mankind. Therefore his country's honor is dear to him as his own, and he would as soon lie and steal himself as assist or excuse his country in a crime.