Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Our first and last love is self-love.

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.

Example has far more followers than reason.

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

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

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.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

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

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.