We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. Christian Nestell Bovee More Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee More Quotes From Christian Nestell Bovee A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni! Christian Nestell Bovee destinypeopleneeds When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest. Christian Nestell Bovee desirepaymean The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity. Christian Nestell Bovee naturalwantdesire Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well. Christian Nestell Bovee fightingimaginationenemy The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. Christian Nestell Bovee cunningboast The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination. Christian Nestell Bovee balancecriticismjustice No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded. Christian Nestell Bovee criticismdeserve The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave. Christian Nestell Bovee excellentcriticismattention What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears! Christian Nestell Bovee yawningcuttingmen Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer. Christian Nestell Bovee excellenceprayerart A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes. Christian Nestell Bovee stylepeculiarart An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims. Christian Nestell Bovee aimprogressambition Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation. Christian Nestell Bovee honesthard-worktemptation For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking. Christian Nestell Bovee The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. Christian Nestell Bovee They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. Christian Nestell Bovee ownwhostrongfaith
