What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, it is greatness itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as… — 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
