CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

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

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

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.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

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

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

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

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

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

Our first and last love is self-love.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

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

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

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

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

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