156 Quotes by Hosea Ballou

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage...

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

God's glowing covenant.