Hosea Ballou

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

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.

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

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.