327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.