Quotes from Christian Nestell Bovee

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

It is easier to die bravely than to live so.

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.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.