Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. — Christian Nestell Bovee Deceit Copy Share Image
There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel. — Christian Nestell Bovee Arrow Copy Share Image
The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Difference Copy Share Image
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Courtesy 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 Able Copy Share Image
When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Desire Copy Share Image
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. — Christian Nestell Bovee Delusion Copy Share Image
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. — Christian Nestell Bovee Aim Copy Share Image
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. — Christian Nestell Bovee Goals Copy Share Image
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals. — Christian Nestell Bovee Animal Copy Share Image
Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing. — Christian Nestell Bovee Ambition Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. — Christian Nestell Bovee Beast Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what… — Christian Nestell Bovee Compare Copy Share Image
New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Benefits Copy Share Image
Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior… — Christian Nestell Bovee Add 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… — Christian Nestell Bovee Compare 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 Animal Copy Share Image
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can… — Christian Nestell Bovee Devotion Copy Share Image
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence… — Christian Nestell Bovee Bases Copy Share Image
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but… — Christian Nestell Bovee Alaska 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 Appreciation 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… — Christian Nestell Bovee Anxiety 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 Arbiter 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 Age Copy Share Image
“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful… — Christian Nestell Bovee Cultivate 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 Complaining 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 Business Copy Share Image
In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Cease Copy Share Image
Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so… — Christian Nestell Bovee Advantage 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 Brotherhood Copy Share Image
Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes… — Christian Nestell Bovee Ability Copy Share Image
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. — Christian Nestell Bovee Agents Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Better Copy Share Image
