Quotes by 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.
• Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
• 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.
• The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
• Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
• Remorse is the pain of sin.
• Politics is the science of urgencies.
• Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
• No man is so great as mankind.
• Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
• Humanity is the sin of God.
• Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
• As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
• 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.
• Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.