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
justice criticism balance
The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
hero heart persistence
Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.
humor water firsts
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
illusion
An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
character men expression
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
beauty art charm
It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.
art school two
In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.
self worst delusion
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
may rich economy
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
beauty eye half
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
evil way poverty
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
men dreamer half
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
adventure men particular
It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.
ambition voice keys
Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.