Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate… — Christian Nestell Bovee Action 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
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. — Christian Nestell Bovee Anticipation Copy Share Image
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Amount Copy Share Image
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Book Copy Share Image
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he… — Christian Nestell Bovee Adversaries Copy Share Image
Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Beautiful Copy Share Image
A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Conquer Copy Share Image
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Awakened Copy Share Image
Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Atoms Copy Share Image
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into… — Christian Nestell Bovee Deviate 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
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. — Christian Nestell Bovee Character Copy Share Image
Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its… — Christian Nestell Bovee Acacia Copy Share Image
Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious… — Christian Nestell Bovee Century Copy Share Image
The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never… — Christian Nestell Bovee Anxiety Copy Share Image
One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life… — Christian Nestell Bovee Ability Copy Share Image
All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier… — Christian Nestell Bovee Empires 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
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
False friends are like our shadow, keep close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we… — Christian Nestell Bovee False friends 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
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple… — Christian Nestell Bovee Appetite Copy Share Image
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Faith Copy Share Image
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse… — Christian Nestell Bovee Action Copy Share Image
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Consciousness 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
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race. — Christian Nestell Bovee Exalted Copy Share Image
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we… — Christian Nestell Bovee Add Copy Share Image
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Firsts Copy Share Image
