Christian Nevell Bovee Quotes

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. - Christian Nevell Bovee

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for. - Christian Nevell Bovee

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. - Christian Nevell Bovee

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. - Christian Nevell Bovee

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

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound. - Christian Nevell Bovee

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God. - Christian Nevell Bovee

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. - Christian Nevell Bovee

The worst deluded are the self - deluded. - Christian Nevell Bovee

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. - Christian Nevell Bovee

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