Quotes by Hosea Ballou

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

— Hosea Ballou

Happiness

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

— Hosea Ballou

Life

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

— Hosea Ballou

Happiness

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

— Hosea Ballou

Truth

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

— Hosea Ballou

Education

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.

— Hosea Ballou

Friendship

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

— Hosea Ballou

Courage

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

— Hosea Ballou

Success

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

— Hosea Ballou

Life

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom

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.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom

Hatred is self-punishment.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

— Hosea Ballou

Life

Error is always more busy than truth.

— Hosea Ballou

Truth

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

— Hosea Ballou

Life

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

— Hosea Ballou

Wisdom