327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.