Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.”

“Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote anothers wit.”

“Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.”

“The next best thing to being witty ones self, is to be able to quote anothers wit.”

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention it is certainly the pioneer.

When all else is lost the future still remains.

Our first and last love is - self-love.

Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point.

Our first and last love is self-love.

Tears are natures lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.