Christian Nevell Bovee
35 quotations
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.