Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Our first and last love is self-love. Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. 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. Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. 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. The great artist is a slave to his ideals. The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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