Christian Nestell Bovee quotes

Our first and last love is self-love. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
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. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
When all else is lost, the future still remains. View quote
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. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world-they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
A book should be luminous, but not voluminous. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
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. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee