George William Curtis
George William Curtis
George William Curtiswas an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. A Republican, he spoke in favor of African American equality and civil rights...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 February 1824
CountryUnited States of America
George William Curtis quotes about
country children lying
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.
fitness lying health
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
civilization women
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
half rewards vices
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.
education intelligent people
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
book lamps burning
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
opportunity political social
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
christmas sunshine june
It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.
dream business hard-times
Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
anger mind mistress
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
criticism construction observation
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
hands cunning stratagem
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
anger men indulge-in
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
hero simple sound
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.