Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior… — 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 Copy Share Image
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as much to maintain it. One who has written a good book, is expected on all occasions to "talk like a book." Or, if one has achieved an act of heroism, he is expected to perform acts of heroism… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share
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 fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share
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
