Christian Nestell BoveeThinkers

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Beauty is partly in him who sees it.

The Book is an embalmed mind, the great of other days made our teachers in the present.

A Book is embalmed minds.

Character is very much a matter of health.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Crying is not always externalized. Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length.