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Quotes by George William Curtis

George William Curtis

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

A mans 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.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Romance 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.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.