Hosea Ballou Quotes
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The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
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Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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Rage is mental imbecility.
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It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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Error is always more busy than truth.
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True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.
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Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.
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The law of heaven is love.
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Mystery and innocence are not akin.
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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
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Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
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You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!
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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
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Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good. Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.
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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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