The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFour sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEActivity and sadness are incompatible.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWeakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEFame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECommon sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA book should be luminous not voluminous.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIf it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEENo man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThere will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAn eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE