Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances. — 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
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 Image
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 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
