Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. – Hosea Ballou
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. – Hosea Ballou
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. – 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. – Hosea Ballou
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the cowards revenge for being intimidated. – Hosea Ballou
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. – Hosea Ballou
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. – Hosea Ballou
The oppression of any people for opinions sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. – Hosea Ballou
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. – Hosea Ballou
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. – Hosea Ballou
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devils propagation. – Hosea Ballou
Education commences at the mothers knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. – Hosea Ballou
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. – 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. – Hosea Ballou
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. – Hosea Ballou
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. – Hosea Ballou
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. – Hosea Ballou
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. – Hosea Ballou
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. – Hosea Ballou
