The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
-
-
It 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 BOVEE -
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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 -
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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 -
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Poverty 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 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 -
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE






