Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. — 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
It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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 Copy Share Image
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to… — 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
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of… — 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 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
