Hosea BallouThinkers

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

Duty is that upon whose alter we make the personal offerings of obedience and resignation.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Envy is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blamable.

Falsehood is cowardice.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul ; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

Idleness is emptiness: the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.