It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man. Christian Nestell Bovee More Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee More Quotes From Christian Nestell Bovee Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty. Christian Nestell Bovee five-sensesimportanceduty It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such. Christian Nestell Bovee adventureradventuremen Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action. Christian Nestell Bovee dreamerhalfmen The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. Christian Nestell Bovee morbidcuresself A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us. Christian Nestell Bovee motherheartchildren There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. Christian Nestell Bovee weaknessskinscharacter 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. Christian Nestell Bovee povertyevilway The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. Christian Nestell Bovee eyehalfbeauty Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. Christian Nestell Bovee richeconomymay The worst deluded are the self-deluded. Christian Nestell Bovee delusionworstself The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things. Christian Nestell Bovee deceitvicesmen The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god. Christian Nestell Bovee stonesanimalmen All good writing leaves something unexpressed. Christian Nestell Bovee good-writingwriting Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Nestell Bovee flowersunchildren As many suffer from too much as too little. Christian Nestell Bovee too-muchsufferinglittles Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. Christian Nestell Bovee weaknessshouldage Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces. Christian Nestell Bovee ambitiousambitionkingdoms Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing. Christian Nestell Bovee voicekeysambition A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth. Christian Nestell Bovee partydisappointmentearth The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it. Christian Nestell Bovee over-itquarrelsdifferences
