Christian Nestell Bovee Needs Quotations

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.