The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee Artificial 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
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 Fear Copy Share Image
Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces. — Christian Nestell Bovee Ambition 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 Childhood Copy Share Image
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. — Christian Nestell Bovee Affliction Copy Share Image
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Best way Copy Share Image
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes... — Christian Nestell Bovee Beautiful Copy Share Image
The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found. — Christian Nestell Bovee Evidence Copy Share Image
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or… — Christian Nestell Bovee Assurance Copy Share Image
Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters. — Christian Nestell Bovee Beautiful Copy Share Image
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Afar Copy Share Image
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Development Copy Share Image
The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Admiration Copy Share Image
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully. — Christian Nestell Bovee Defeat Copy Share Image
Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Heaven Copy Share Image
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Delight Copy Share Image
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. — Christian Nestell Bovee Customs Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age… — Christian Nestell Bovee Age Copy Share Image
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion. — Christian Nestell Bovee Feelings Copy Share Image
It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly… — Christian Nestell Bovee Art Copy Share Image
