327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.