Hosea Ballou quotes

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. (Hosea Ballou)
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Hatred is self-punishment. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. View quote
Hosea Ballou
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Error is always more busy than truth. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. (Hosea Ballou)
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. View quote
Hosea Ballou
If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world? View quote
Hosea Ballou
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. View quote
Hosea Ballou
There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. View quote
Hosea Ballou
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. View quote
Hosea Ballou
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. View quote
Hosea Ballou
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. (Hosea Ballou)
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully. View quote
Hosea Ballou
There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals. View quote
Hosea Ballou