156 Quotes by Hosea Ballou

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends toward the formation of character.

Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

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

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

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.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.