26 Quotes By Christian Nestell Bovee

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Christian Nestell Bovee on beauty

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee on best

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee on courage

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Nestell Bovee on failure

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Nestell Bovee on faith

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell Bovee on fear

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Christian Nestell Bovee on fear

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.
Christian Nestell Bovee on fear

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee on food

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

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee on great

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

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Christian Nestell Bovee on imagination

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee on music

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell Bovee on nature

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

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nestell Bovee on politics

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Christian Nestell Bovee on truth

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Christian Nestell Bovee on children

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee on discretion