327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

As many suffer from too much as too little.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.