"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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
Hosea Ballou"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."
Hosea Ballou"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way."
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"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."
Hosea Ballou"Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains."
Hosea Ballou