327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

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

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.