Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. — Christian Nestell Bovee Deceit Copy Share Image
The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Difference Copy Share Image
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Courtesy Copy Share Image
Talk less about the years to come, Live, love labor more today. — Christian Nestell Bovee Labor Copy Share Image
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. — Christian Nestell Bovee Age 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
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
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
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
Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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 Copy Share Image
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Approach 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
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover… — Christian Nestell Bovee Advantage Copy Share Image
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling… — Christian Nestell Bovee Capital punishment 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 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 Copy Share Image
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate… — Christian Nestell Bovee Appreciation Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert… — Christian Nestell Bovee Anxiety Copy Share Image
It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes… — Christian Nestell Bovee Brave Copy Share Image
God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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 the nature of thought to find its way into action. — Christian Nestell Bovee Action Copy Share Image
Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point. — Christian Nestell Bovee Concentration Copy Share Image
Give me the character and I will forecast the event. — Christian Nestell Bovee Character Copy Share Image
