James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. G. W. Curtis
Criticism is not construction; it is observation. 1 Happiness lies first of all in health. 2 Life is a rich strain of music suggesting a realm too fair to be. 3 Life is the best thing we can possibly make of it. 4 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. 5 Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence. 6 Progress begins with the minority. 7 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. 8 The test of civilisation is the estimate of woman. 9
