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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He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.
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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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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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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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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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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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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
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Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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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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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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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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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.