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
work dreamer realization
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
littles too-much riches
The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.
strong purpose facts
A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.
independent sometimes reason
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.
retreat advantage wit
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
office tendencies wit
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
women addresses compliment
The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
women rocks charity
A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
beautiful sweet women
The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.
beautiful women handsome
Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.
balls cannons mark
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
work influence whole-life
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
soul triumph small-successes
There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.
leadership fall play
Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.