Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Insecure, Age

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.84

• A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mother, Children, Heart

• Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Age, Demand, Revision

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

• The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tears, Departure, Noise

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gay, Rose, Feelings

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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