As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell BoveeLuminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
Christian Nestell BoveeMost books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
Christian Nestell BoveeIn one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less
Christian Nestell Bovee