Quotes from Theodore Parker

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

Everything gives way to money, and money gives way to nothing, neither to man nor to God.

gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance, giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

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.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

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

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

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.

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

All men desire to be immortal.

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

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".