Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

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.

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.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance–the sense of duty.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.