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 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
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
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
It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such. — 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
