The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe great artist is a slave to his ideals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEHope is the best part of our riches.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESuccessful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETruth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETroubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDoubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWe fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEToo much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE