There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
“Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in,… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
