Hosea Ballou

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

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

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.