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
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. – Hosea Ballou
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. – Hosea Ballou
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. – Hosea Ballou
In fairyland we avoid the word “law”; but in the land of science they are singularly fond of it…. The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, “charm,” “spell,” “enchantment.” They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. – G.K. Chesterton, “The Ethics of Elfland,” Orthodoxy