Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhat we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
-
-
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
A 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 BOVEE -
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE