Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou Beauty Copy Share Image
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. — Hosea Ballou Blossom 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
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
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
With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to… — Hosea Ballou 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
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
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
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
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
