Christian Nestell Bovee Giving Quotations

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

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 hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.