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.”

“No man is so great as mankind.”

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”

“As society advances the standard of poverty rises.”

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Politics is the science of urgencies.”

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

“Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.”

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

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

“Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.”

“Humanity is the sin of God.”

“Remorse is the pain of sin.”