Zitat des Tages von 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.
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hatred is self-punishment.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Error is always more busy than truth.
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
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.
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.