Christian Nestell Bovee (February 22, 1820 – January 18, 1904) was an epigrammatic New York City writer. He was born in New York City.
The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.