Theodore Parker

Humanity is the sin of God.

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

The most useful is the greatest.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

No man is so great as mankind.

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.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

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.

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

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

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

Nature is God's Old Testament.

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.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

The diamond which shines in the Saviours crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

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

Disappointment is often the salt of life.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

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