Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury. — Christian Nestell Bovee Freedom Copy Share Image
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
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
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
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. — Christian Nestell Bovee Determination 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
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Heart Copy Share Image
Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters. — Christian Nestell Bovee Beautiful 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
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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 Ascetic Copy Share Image
In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Acquaintance Copy Share Image
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful… — Christian Nestell Bovee Ambition Copy Share Image
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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 Copy Share Image
In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled… — Christian Nestell Bovee Character Copy Share Image
The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always… — Christian Nestell Bovee Art Copy Share Image
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Acts of heroism Copy Share Image
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. — Christian Nestell Bovee Existence 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
