Christian Nestell Bovee

“When all else is lost, the future still remains.”

“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”

“Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.”

“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”

“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”

“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.”

“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”

“Our first and last love is self-love.”

“They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.”

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”