There is very little moral mixture in the ‘Antislavery’ feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.

— George William Curtis

George William Curtis Quotes

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

— George William Curtis

Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

— George William Curtis

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

— George William Curtis

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

— George William Curtis

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

— George William Curtis

True invective requires great imagination.

— George William Curtis

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

— 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.

— George William Curtis

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

— George William Curtis

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

— George William Curtis

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

— George William Curtis

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

— George William Curtis

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

— George William Curtis

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

— George William Curtis

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Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

— George William Curtis

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

— George William Curtis

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

— George William Curtis

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

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

— George William Curtis

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.

— George William Curtis

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