Hosea Ballou Quotes

The eye is inlet to the soul.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.