The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind… — Christian Nestell Bovee Activity 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
Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Barbarism Copy Share Image
Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Ability Copy Share Image
Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart. — Christian Nestell Bovee Ambition Copy Share Image
There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers. — Christian Nestell Bovee Brother 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
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation. — Christian Nestell Bovee Hard 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
The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Battle Copy Share Image
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. — Christian Nestell Bovee Action 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
The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Being honest Copy Share Image
The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended… — Christian Nestell Bovee Determine Copy Share Image
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by… — Christian Nestell Bovee Business Copy Share Image
Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas. — Christian Nestell Bovee Endless Copy Share Image
God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their… — Christian Nestell Bovee Casts 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
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
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
Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, it is greatness itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee First step Copy Share Image
