Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Theodore Parker
No man is so great as mankind.
Theodore Parker
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
Theodore Parker
Remorse is the pain of sin.
Theodore Parker
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
Theodore Parker
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Theodore Parker
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
Theodore Parker
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
Theodore Parker
The miser, starving his brother’s body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
Theodore Parker
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker
Politics is the science of urgencies.
Theodore Parker
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Theodore Parker
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
Theodore Parker
Humanity is the sin of God.
Theodore Parker
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
Theodore Parker