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

- Theodore Parker

First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by th…

- Theodore Parker

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

- Theodore Parker

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the …

- Theodore Parker

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

- Theodore Parker

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be t…

- Theodore Parker

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

- Theodore Parker

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

- Theodore Parker

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

- Theodore Parker