A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces. — Christian Nestell Bovee Artist Copy Share Image
Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now. — Christian Nestell Bovee Journey Copy Share Image
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. — Christian Nestell Bovee Existence Copy Share Image
Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Character Copy Share Image
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. — Christian Nestell Bovee Determination Copy Share Image
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. — Christian Nestell Bovee Anxiety Copy Share Image
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses. — Christian Nestell Bovee Curse Copy Share Image
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee Desire Copy Share Image
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. — Christian Nestell Bovee Faith Copy Share Image
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Heart Copy Share Image
It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling… — Christian Nestell Bovee Capital punishment Copy Share Image
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover… — Christian Nestell Bovee Advantage Copy Share Image
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit… — Christian Nestell Bovee Appetite Copy Share Image
We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Disappointment Copy Share Image
Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters. — Christian Nestell Bovee Beautiful Copy Share Image
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them. — Christian Nestell Bovee Fashion Copy Share Image
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. — Christian Nestell Bovee Conscience Copy Share Image
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less — Christian Nestell Bovee Dignity Copy Share Image
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away. — Christian Nestell Bovee Charity Copy Share Image
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. — Christian Nestell Bovee Astronomy Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages. — Christian Nestell Bovee Advantage Copy Share Image
Talk less about the years to come, Live, love labor more today. — Christian Nestell Bovee Labor Copy Share Image
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. — Christian Nestell Bovee Age Copy Share Image
Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
