Hosea Ballou Quotes
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea Ballou
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Mystery and innocence are not akin.
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.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
