Hosea Ballou

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its
counterfeit.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its
counterfeit.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, read more

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.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.