Hosea Ballou quotes
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.