Christian Nestell Bovee

When all else is lost, the future still remains…

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the…

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

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of…

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music…

Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be…

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears…

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a…

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them…

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to…

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

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

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to…

Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by…

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another’s wit…