Top 42 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

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.

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

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

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

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

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

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

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

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