Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

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

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention it is certainly the pioneer.

When all else is lost the future still remains.

Our first and last love is - self-love.

Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.