The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
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 Image
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action. — 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
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of… — 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
Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is… — 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
It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive… — 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
