Hosea Ballou

Who was Hosea Ballou?

Hosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.

Famous Quotes:

• Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
• Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
• Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
• Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
• A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
• Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
• 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.
• Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
• Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.