Quote: The test of civilization is its estimate of women. [George William Curtis]
Quote: While we read history we make history. [George William Curtis]
Quote: Happiness lies first of all in health. [George William Curtis]
Quote: Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. [George William Curtis]
Quote: 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. [George William Curtis]
Quote: 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. [George William Curtis]
Quote: Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. [George William Curtis]