Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.
Hosea BallouTrue charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
Hosea BallouIt is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.
Hosea Ballou