"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." ― Hosea Ballou Topic(s): Happiness More From Hosea Ballou "Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation." "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature." "Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age." More In Happiness "The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness."― Clayton Christensen "Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."― Ovid "Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."― Plato