Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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

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.

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

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

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.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly

When all is lost, the future still remains.

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.

Good men have the fewest fears.

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

Example has more followers than reason.

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

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

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

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

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence.