Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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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.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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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.
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What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Loose ideas on the subject of business will not answer. It must be reduced to something of a science. It has its principles, upon a knowledge and an application of which, success in it mainly depends.
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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
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Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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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.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.