Christian Nestell Bovee Feelings Quotations

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.