327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Talk less about the years to come, Live, love labor more today.

A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

Character is very much a matter of health.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.