Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee was an epigrammatic New York writer.
53 quotes.
Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
- The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
- The sweetest pleasure is in imparting it.
- The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.
- There is great beauty in going through life fearlessly. Half our fears are baseless, the other half discreditable.
- There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
- 'Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.
- To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
- Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured, but only for a time.
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
- What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.
- When all else is lost, the future still remains.
- 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.