George Curtis Quotes (4 Quotes)

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve

A bird sang sweet and strongIn the top of the highest tree,He said, I pour out my heart in songFor the summer that soon shall be.But deep in the shady wood,Another bird sang, I pourMy heart on the solemn solitudeFor the springs that return no more.

O listen to the sounding seaThat beats on the remorseless shore,O listen for that sound will beWhen our wild hearts shall beat no more.

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.