Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea Ballou (Universalist, clergy)
The only security for public liberty is found in the absolute and unqualified freedom of thought and expression.
Horace Greeley (Universalist, journalist, editor, social reformer) quoted by Robert C. Williams, Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom (2006) p.44
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) (Universalist, clergy)
It is the pleasures of life, not its necessities, which as a whole cause us anxiety and pain.
Horace Greeley (Universalist, journalist, editor, reformer)
No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene
Hosea Ballou (Universalist, clergy)
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
Hosea Ballou (Universalist, clergy)
A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil’s propagation
Hosea Ballou (Universalist, clergy)
Fortune is never all on one side.
Caroline Augusta Soule, Memoir of Rev. H. B. Soule (1852) p.36 (Universalist, author, editor, missionary, minister)
Character is greater than circumstances
E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin) Hours of Communion (1848) p.56 (Universalist, clergy)
The milk-white lilies that lean from the fragrant hedge
Alice Cary (Universalist, poet)
