327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

Hope is the best part of our riches.