Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Maturin Murray Ballou

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a writer Maturin Murray Ballou.
Last updated on October 19, 2024.
Maturin Murray Ballou

Maturin Murray Ballou was a writer and publisher in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He co-founded Gleason's Pictorial, was the first editor of the Boston Daily Globe, and wrote numerous travel books and works of popular fiction.

Writer | April 14, 1820 - March 27, 1895
You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space. — © Maturin Murray Ballou
You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.
Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.
For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf.
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