Christian Nevell Bovee

(630 votes)   It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(320 votes)   Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(319 votes)   We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(291 votes)   The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(275 votes)   We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(213 votes)   Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(190 votes)   Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(183 votes)   The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(176 votes)   Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(170 votes)   It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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(166 votes)   In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(165 votes)   Hope is the best part of our riches.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(163 votes)   The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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

John Christian Bovee

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(150 votes)   Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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