A book should be luminous not voluminous.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA book should be luminous not voluminous.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPoverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWords, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFour sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWinter is the night of vegetation.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEExcellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEENothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDifficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEDignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMarriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEGreat warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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