Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. — Christian Nestell Bovee Christian living Copy Share Image
Examples are few of men ruined by giving. — Christian Nestell Bovee Biblical stewardship Copy Share Image
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee Adversity Copy Share Image
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who… — Christian Nestell Bovee Fear Copy Share Image
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. — Christian Nestell Bovee Audacity Copy Share Image
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is. — Christian Nestell Bovee Disguise Copy Share Image
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Discretion Copy Share Image
The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action. — Christian Nestell Bovee Action Copy Share Image
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. — Christian Nestell Bovee Fame Copy Share Image
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Code Copy Share Image
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Delight Copy Share Image
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Childhood Copy Share Image
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Adherence Copy Share Image
I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Battle Copy Share Image
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Eloquence Copy Share Image
Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Advancement Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. — Christian Nestell Bovee Devotion Copy Share Image
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. — Christian Nestell Bovee Affliction Copy Share Image
