Quotes About Christian Nestell Bovee

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

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.