Quotes from Christian Nevell Bovee

Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them

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

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Example has more followers than reason.

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

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

It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

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

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having.

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