In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

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 Longfellow Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes and of all the brilliant men who composed at that time the Saturday Evening Club of Boston". He died in Philadelphia.

It was reported that Bovee "enjoyed the intimate friendship of Washington Irving Longfellow Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes and of all the brilliant men who composed at that time the Saturday Evening Club of Boston". He died in Philadelphia. Bovee wrote two books that were widely quoted in contemporaneous compilations these being Intuitions and Summaries of Thought and Thoughts Feelings and Fancies.