Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Our first and last love is self-love.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell Bovee

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
Christian Nestell Bovee

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Christian Nestell Bovee

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Christian Nestell Bovee

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Christian Nestell Bovee

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell Bovee

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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