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

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

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Hosea Ballou

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Hosea Ballou

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea Ballou

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea Ballou

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Hosea Ballou