Theodore Parker's Quotes

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

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.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

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.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

No man is so great as mankind.

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.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Humanity is the sin of God.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.