A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Hosea Ballou quote Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea Ballou quote Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea Ballou quote Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Hosea Ballou quote Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Hosea Ballou quote No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Hosea Ballou quote 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 quote Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou quote Biography
American Clergyman, lived 1771 - 1852
