Hosea Ballou Quotes

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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.