Hosea Ballou

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

- Hosea Ballou

"Disease is the retribution of outraged nature."

- Hosea Ballou

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

- Hosea Ballou

"It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so."

- Hosea Ballou

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

- Hosea Ballou