1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Beauty]
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Sensuality]
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Thoughts and Thinking]
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Cheerfulness]
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Progress]
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Arts and Artists]
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Virtue]
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Planning]
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Passion]
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Courtesy]
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Fear]
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Joy]
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Perseverance]
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Desire]
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Conscience]
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Future]
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Alcohol and Alcoholism]
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
Christian Nevell Bovee – [Life and Living]
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