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
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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 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
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
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
