327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

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

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice