Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness. — Hosea Ballou Inspirational Copy Share Image
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou Affliction Copy Share Image
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. — Hosea Ballou Being original Copy Share Image
It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power. — Hosea Ballou Intellect Copy Share Image
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou Energy Copy Share Image
Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted… — Hosea Ballou Delight Copy Share Image
A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. — Hosea Ballou Cultivation Copy Share Image
Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer. — Hosea Ballou Barriers Copy Share Image
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation. — Hosea Ballou Charity Copy Share Image
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the… — Hosea Ballou Ashamed Copy Share Image
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. — Hosea Ballou Experience Copy Share Image
Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life. — Hosea Ballou Blessing Copy Share Image
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty. — Hosea Ballou Altars Copy Share Image
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. — Hosea Ballou Books Copy Share Image
Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. — Hosea Ballou Adversity Copy Share Image
A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect. — Hosea Ballou Cause and effect Copy Share Image
True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination. — Hosea Ballou Imagination Copy Share Image
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. — Hosea Ballou Facts Copy Share Image
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known… — Hosea Ballou Ancestry Copy Share Image
The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. — Hosea Ballou Bad habit Copy Share Image
“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends toward the formation of character.” — Hosea Ballou Children Copy Share Image
There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense. — Hosea Ballou Enthusiastic Copy Share Image
It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of… — Hosea Ballou Blue Copy Share Image
