327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Books are embalmed minds.

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.