128 Quotes by Theodore Parker

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

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.