Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Justice, not the majority, should rule.
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Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.
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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.
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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.
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We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.
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It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.
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He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.
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Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
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A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.
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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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