Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.
Hosea BallouPreaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Hosea BallouA single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Hosea Ballou