Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best] — Christian Nestell Bovee Gratitude Copy Share Image
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. — Christian Nestell Bovee Children Copy Share Image
All good writing leaves something unexpressed. — Christian Nestell Bovee Good writing Copy Share Image
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. — Christian Nestell Bovee Affection Copy Share Image
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee Adversity Copy Share Image
A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Charity Copy Share Image
Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery. — Christian Nestell Bovee Misery Copy Share Image
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. — Christian Nestell Bovee Delusion Copy Share Image
When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Desire Copy Share Image
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee Brave Copy Share Image
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Best way Copy Share Image
In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Adherence Copy Share Image
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Acts of kindness Copy Share Image
We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little… — Christian Nestell Bovee Inspirational Copy Share Image
A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Code Copy Share Image
Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. — Christian Nestell Bovee Goals Copy Share Image
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing. — Christian Nestell Bovee Ambition Copy Share Image
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals. — Christian Nestell Bovee Animal Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. — Christian Nestell Bovee Beast Copy Share Image
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons. — Christian Nestell Bovee Compensation Copy Share Image
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. — Christian Nestell Bovee Fame Copy Share Image
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. — Christian Nestell Bovee Consciousness Copy Share Image
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Discretion Copy Share Image
To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another. — Christian Nestell Bovee Death Copy Share Image
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who… — Christian Nestell Bovee Fear Copy Share Image
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Discretion Copy Share Image
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