Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.
Christian Nestell BoveeNo man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell BoveeHunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.
Christian Nestell BoveeNo single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.
Christian Nestell Bovee