Hosea Ballou
11 quotations
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.