Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Affliction;

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Cheerfulness;

One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Contentment;

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Courtesy;

The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Credulity;

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Custom;

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Delusion;

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Delusion;

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

Desire;

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Economy;

When all else is lost, the future still remains.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Future;

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Illusion;

Imitation belittles.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Imitation;

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Imitation;