Danh ngôn của Hosea Ballou (Sứ mệnh: 3)

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
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.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Error is always more busy than truth.
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.