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All Quotes by author - Christian Nestell Bovee

" A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. "

" As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. "

" Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. "

" Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. "

" Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. "

" Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. "

" False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. "

" Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. "

" Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. "

" Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. "

" It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. "

" 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. "

" Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. "

" Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. "

" No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. "

" Our first and last love is self-love. "

" Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. "

" Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. "

" The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. "

" The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. "

" The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. "

" The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. "

" They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. "

" Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. "

" We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. "

" When all else is lost, the future still remains. "

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