"Christian Nestell Bovee" was an epigrammatic New York writer.

Bovee wrote two books that were widely quoted in contemporaneous compilations, these being Intuitions and Summaries of Thought and Thoughts, Feelings and Fancies.

It was reported that Bovee "enjoyed the intimate friendship of Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson/Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr./Oliver Wendell Holmes and of all the brilliant men who composed at that time the Saturday Evening Club of Boston". He died in Philadelphia.

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Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.