Our first and last love is... self-love.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Self-love]

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Sensuality]

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Simplicity]

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Smile]

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Taste]

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Tears]

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Thoughts and Thinking]

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Unemployment]

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Virtue]

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Virtue]

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Passion]

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Passion]

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Perseverance]

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Planning]

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Progress]

Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Quotations]

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 - [Rivalry]

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

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee - [Kindness]

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 - [Kisses and Kissing]