Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
Christian Nestell BoveeGreat warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
Christian Nestell BoveeHow like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
Christian Nestell Bovee