156 Quotes by Hosea Ballou

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Self-respect is the best of all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.