Hosea Ballou

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.

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

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.