No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. — Hosea Ballou Business Copy Share Image
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou Devil Copy Share Image
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. — Hosea Ballou Associates Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. — Hosea Ballou Blood Copy Share Image
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. — Hosea Ballou Doubt Copy Share Image
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! — Hosea Ballou Benevolence Copy Share Image
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. — Hosea Ballou Charity Copy Share Image
We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own. — Hosea Ballou Bible 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 Eye 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
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
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is...always an enemy to happiness. — Hosea Ballou Being trusted Copy Share Image
With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to… — Hosea Ballou Be careful 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
“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
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou Character Copy Share Image
If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear? — Hosea Ballou Conscience Copy Share Image
The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought. — Hosea Ballou Add Copy Share Image
Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts. — Hosea Ballou Clergymen Copy Share Image
Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion. — Hosea Ballou Altars Copy Share Image
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring. — Hosea Ballou Children Copy Share Image
Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer. — Hosea Ballou Business Copy Share Image
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. — Hosea Ballou Courage Copy Share Image
You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker. — Hosea Ballou Appearance Copy Share Image
How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion. — Hosea Ballou Fruit Copy Share Image
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. — Hosea Ballou Emptiness Copy Share Image
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. — Hosea Ballou Breasts Copy Share Image
If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men… — Hosea Ballou Children Copy Share Image
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to… — Hosea Ballou Courage Copy Share Image
I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of… — Hosea Ballou Bosoms Copy Share Image
Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine… — Hosea Ballou Argument Copy Share Image
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character — Hosea Ballou Character Copy Share Image
There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its… — Hosea Ballou Character 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 Curious 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
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
