It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

- John Frederick Boyes

Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown …

- John Frederick Boyes

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

- John Frederick Boyes

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to eith…

- John Frederick Boyes

There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How …

- John Frederick Boyes

There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds …

- John Frederick Boyes

Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with th…

- John Frederick Boyes

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the…

- John Frederick Boyes

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

- John Frederick Boyes