Quotes By Christian Nestell Bovee

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of 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.

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

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

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.

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

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