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