Christian Nestell Bovee Literature Quotations

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

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

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

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

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.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.