Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Boveewas an epigrammatic New York writer. He was born in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
Christian Nestell Bovee quotes about
men tunnels light
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
past emotion
The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
art simple needs
The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.
opinion misanthropy evidence
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.
may merit recognition
The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.
moon clouds merit
Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
justice majority should
Justice, not the majority, should rule.
choices battle half
The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects--but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them.
book eye soul
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
exercise mind digestion
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
dishes wit seasoning
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
brother long easy
There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
perfect results motive
Pure motives do not insure perfect results.
men evil action
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.