To cultivate a garden is to walk with God. 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-senses importance duty It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such. Christian Nestell Bovee adventurer adventure men Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action. Christian Nestell Bovee dreamer half men The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. Christian Nestell Bovee morbid cures self 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 mother heart children There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. Christian Nestell Bovee weakness skins character 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 poverty evil way The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. Christian Nestell Bovee eye half beauty Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. Christian Nestell Bovee rich economy may The worst deluded are the self-deluded. Christian Nestell Bovee delusion worst self 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 deceit vices men 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 stones animal men All good writing leaves something unexpressed. Christian Nestell Bovee good-writing writing Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Nestell Bovee flower sun children As many suffer from too much as too little. Christian Nestell Bovee too-much suffering littles Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. Christian Nestell Bovee weakness should age Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces. Christian Nestell Bovee ambitious ambition kingdoms 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 voice keys ambition 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 party disappointment earth The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it. Christian Nestell Bovee over-it quarrels differences
