Quotes By Christian Nestell Bovee

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

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

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

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.

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

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

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.

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

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

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