246 Quotes by Christian N. Bovee

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.