More From Hosea Ballou
- "Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
- "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."
More In Age
- "If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust."― Lord Chesterfield
- "You never choose the way that you’re raised, it’s just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you’re in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you’ve been formed by your surroundings."― Mia Wasikowska
- "Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."― Ambrose Bierce