246 Quotes by Christian N. Bovee

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student’s lamp.

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.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.