A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces. — Christian Nestell Bovee Artist Copy Share Image
Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now. — Christian Nestell Bovee Journey Copy Share Image
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. — Christian Nestell Bovee Aggravated Copy Share Image
The body of the sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. — Christian Nestell Bovee Body Copy Share Image
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully. — Christian Nestell Bovee Defeat Copy Share Image
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. — Christian Nestell Bovee Body Copy Share Image
Talk less about the years to come, Live, love labor more today. — Christian Nestell Bovee Labor Copy Share Image
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss. — Christian Nestell Bovee Affection Copy Share Image
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. — Christian Nestell Bovee Eye 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 Facts Copy Share Image
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. — Christian Nestell Bovee Cure Copy Share Image
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less — Christian Nestell Bovee Dignity Copy Share Image
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while. — Christian Nestell Bovee Earnest Copy Share Image
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. — Christian Nestell Bovee Astronomy Copy Share Image
The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length… — Christian Nestell Bovee Character Copy Share Image
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Disappointment Copy Share Image
Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Age Copy Share Image
Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will;… — Christian Nestell Bovee Carnivals Copy Share Image
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable… — Christian Nestell Bovee Approximation Copy Share Image
Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit… — Christian Nestell Bovee Appetite 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… — Christian Nestell Bovee Fortune Copy Share Image
It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Causes Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom. — Christian Nestell Bovee Cheerfulness Copy Share Image
It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away. — Christian Nestell Bovee Charity Copy Share Image
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done. — Christian Nestell Bovee Done Copy Share Image
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. — Christian Nestell Bovee Favors 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 Genuine Copy Share Image
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. — Christian Nestell Bovee Conscience Copy Share Image
There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them. — Christian Nestell Bovee Fashion Copy Share Image
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses. — Christian Nestell Bovee Curse Copy Share Image
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. — Christian Nestell Bovee Anxiety Copy Share Image
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee Desire 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 Character Copy Share Image
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. — Christian Nestell Bovee Brilliant Copy Share Image
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. — Christian Nestell Bovee Determination Copy Share Image
Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Character 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 Business Copy Share Image
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. — Christian Nestell Bovee Faith Copy Share Image
