About Hosea Ballou: Hosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. He has been called one of the fathers of American Universalism.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends toward the formation of character.
