Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
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The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only 'the first step toward greatness,' - it is greatness itself.
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He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Melancholy sees the worst of things,-things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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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.
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Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,-these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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'There is nothing,' says a correspondent of the New York Times, 'which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.