Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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

“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.”

“Doubt whom you will but never yourself.”

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

“Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,—these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.”

“He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.”

“The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, — it is greatness itself.”

“A book should be luminous but not voluminous.”

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

“Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.”

“Loose ideas on the subject of business will not answer. It must be reduced to something of a science. It has its principles, upon a knowledge and an application of which, success in it mainly depends.”

“There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revo...”

“There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”

“Perhaps no man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions, it may be said, are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”

“Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains...”

“Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action...”

“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.”

“The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.”