George William Curtis

The test of civilization is its estimate of women…

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods…

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win…

Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper…

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and…

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom…

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

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds…

Happiness lies first of all in health…

Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where…