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 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
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
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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 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
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
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
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 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 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 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
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Doubt Copy Share Image
Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Bread Copy Share Image
The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
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
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 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 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
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Affection Copy Share Image
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or… — Christian Nestell Bovee Assurance Copy Share Image
The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Being honest Copy Share Image
The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination. — Christian Nestell Bovee Balance Copy Share Image
The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep… — Christian Nestell Bovee Anger Copy Share Image
Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
