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Hosea Ballou – 8 Quotes
8 Quotes by Hosea Ballou
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
– Hosea Ballou
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
– Hosea Ballou
Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
– Hosea Ballou
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
– Hosea Ballou
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.
– Hosea Ballou
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
– Hosea Ballou
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
– Hosea Ballou
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.
– Hosea Ballou