327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.