Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed. John Christian Bovee More Quotes by John Christian Bovee More Quotes From John Christian 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. John Christian Bovee Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it. John Christian Bovee Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. John Christian Bovee In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less. John Christian 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. John Christian Bovee The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. John Christian Bovee
