Christian Nestell Bovee World Quotations

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

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

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.