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
love gay expression
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.
life profound understanding
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
book matter juice
The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
criticism deserve
No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
book development want
Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
cunning boast
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
fighting imagination enemy
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.
desire want natural
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.
mean desire pay
When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
destiny people needs
A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
character matter
Character is very much a matter of health.
giving charity needs
It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
wine alcohol alcoholism
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
nature desire literature
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.