156 Quotes by Hosea Ballou

Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage....

Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.