Quotes By Christian Nestell Bovee

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Our first and last love is self-love.