The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
Hosea BallouReproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
Hosea BallouThe 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.
Hosea BallouThe eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
Hosea Ballou