Hosea Ballou

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Hosea Ballou

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

Hosea Ballou

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

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