Hosea Ballou

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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