Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Quote by Hosea Ballou

Topics: Charity Quotes

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

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

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.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his...

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his...

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It...

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It...

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children...

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children...

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

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...

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

There is no such things as est in the world of individuals.

There is no such things as est in the world of individuals.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than...

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than...