Christian Nestell Bovee said this quote

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

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee