The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes.… — 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
It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth 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… — 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
Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he… — 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
A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect… — 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
We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true… — 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
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
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share
It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share
