Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Bovee
Christian Nestell Boveewas an epigrammatic New York writer. He was born in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
Christian Nestell Bovee quotes about
loss sincerity
Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
beauty beautiful giving
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
world population existence
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
love-yourself first-love love-is
Our first and last love is self-love.
music clothes shelter
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
friendship bad-friend sunshine
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
alaska literature unseen
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
tombstone few-words fame
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
humanity rope degradation
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
honesty people faults
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
anticipation trouble
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
beauty delight mortals
Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
nature way action
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
nature character men
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.