Hosea Ballou quotes and words of wisdom

"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."
Found in the topic Youth.

"It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store."
Found in the topic Philanthropy.

"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Hatred is self-punishment."
Found in the topic Hate.

"Disease is the retribution of outraged nature."
Found in the topic Disease.

"Mystery and innocence are not akin."
Found in the topic Mystery.

"The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration."
Found in the topic Worship.

"Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction."
Found in the topic Breeding.

"Education commences at the mother"s knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character."
Found in the topic Children.

"Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself."
Found in the topic Pretension.

"A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page."
Found in the topic Habit.

"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."
Found in the topic Suspicion.

"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine."
Found in the topic Zeal.

Interesting Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.Muhammad Ali - US boxer (1942 - )

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.Mao Tse-tung - Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976)