Hosea Ballou Quotes

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.

Hosea Ballou

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hosea Ballou

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

Hosea Ballou

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.

Hosea Ballou

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.

Hosea Ballou

Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.

Hosea Ballou

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

Hosea Ballou

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Hosea Ballou

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

Hosea Ballou