327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.