Parker, Theodore Quotes

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

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.

Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

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

This is what I call the American idea, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people -- a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God.

It is not from the tall crowded work house of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

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

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.