246 Quotes by Christian N. Bovee

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer’s voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

Books are embalmed minds.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.