Christian Nestell Bovee: Quotes about the world

Christian Nestell Bovee was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on world.

Christian Nestell Bovee: 42 quotes2 likes

“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world — they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

"Authors", p. 68.
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I

“"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 84.

“The light in the world comes principally from two sources,—the sun, and the student's lamp.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 16.