James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
G. W. Curtis
Criticism is not construction; it is observation.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
Life is a rich strain of music suggesting a realm too fair to be.
Life is the best thing we can possibly make of it.
Men love at first, and most warmly; women love last and longest. This is natural enough, for nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
Progress begins with the minority.
Romance, like a ghost, eludes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but is poetry in memory.
The test of civilisation is the estimate of woman.