Hosea Ballou

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

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams…

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children…

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage…

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

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It…

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature…

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation…