The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. — Christian Nestell Bovee Body Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom. — Christian Nestell Bovee Cheerfulness Copy Share Image
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Economics Copy Share Image
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
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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 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
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. — Christian Nestell Bovee Conscience Copy Share Image
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time. — Christian Nestell Bovee Inspirational Copy Share Image
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt. — Christian Nestell Bovee Beloved Copy Share Image
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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 Copy Share Image
Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can… — Christian Nestell Bovee Devotion Copy Share Image
The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Animal Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but… — Christian Nestell Bovee Alaska 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
Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Eloquence Copy Share Image
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Advancement Copy Share Image
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. — Christian Nestell Bovee Affliction Copy Share Image
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. — Christian Nestell Bovee Devotion Copy Share Image
