Quotes from bovee christian nestell iv

For cowards the rode of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears.

A perfect work destroys the critic's art.

Tomorrow thinks not of the cares of today.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

Some dangers are to be courted--courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed, with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.

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

Courage ennobles manhood; cowardice degrades it.

The least of the virtues adds to the perfection of the character. It is with the finest characters as it is with the finest woods and marbles--the polishing hand is still needed to bring out the veins of beauty and of grace.

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

Evils are to be traced to their sources, and struck at there. Like Barbary pirates, they are to be destroyed through the suppression of the state that sends them forth.

As well might a flower complain of the bee which its sweetness attracts, as a pretty girl of being gazed at when she goes abroad. But the complaint is seldom made in earnest.

We have two lessons to teach an enemy who despises us--to value himself less highly, and us more worthily.

There will always be romance in the world, so long as there are young hearts in it.

Next to living with honor is to die with honor.

Great crimes seldom spring from any sudden demoralization in the natures of their perpetrators. What seems a fearful precipitation of character, is usually no more than the rending of a veil from the hitherto concealed parts of it.

In the deeper recesses of every heart is a store of hoarded secrets.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.