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
In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Adherence Copy Share Image
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones. — Christian Nestell Bovee Fancy 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
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 Development Copy Share Image
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all. — Christian Nestell Bovee Dreamer 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
It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such. — Christian Nestell Bovee Adventure Copy Share Image
Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison. — Christian Nestell Bovee Comparison Copy Share Image
