To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.] — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes... — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — 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
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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 to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
